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Stanza vs Quintet - What's the difference?

stanza | quintet |

As nouns the difference between stanza and quintet

is that stanza is a unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse while quintet is a composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians.

stanza

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
  • (architecture) An apartment or division in a building.
  • (computing) A structural element in XML
  • * 2009 , Tim Riley, Adam Goucher, Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software
  • Whenever an XMPP client generates an XML stanza , it typically constructs the XML of the stanza by building up a structured document...
  • * 2009 , John Rittinghouse, James F. Ransome, Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security
  • Technically speaking, federation is the ability for two XMPP servers in different domains to exchange XML stanzas .

    Derived terms

    * stanzaic

    See also

    * strophe

    Anagrams

    * ----

    quintet

    Alternative forms

    * quintette

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music) A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians)
  • (music) A group of five musicians, fit to play such a piece of music together
  • Any group of five members
  • See also

    * duo * trio * quartet * sextet * septet * octet * nonet * chamber ensemble * chamber orchestra