session

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a meeting devoted to a particular activity

   a filming session

2. 2
   noun

   a meeting for execution of a group's functions

   it was the opening session of the legislature

3. 3
   noun

   A period of time devoted to a particular activity.

   counseling session

4. 4
   noun

   An official meeting or term of a council, court, or other body to conduct its business; e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislature (that together comprise the legislative term), whose individual meetings are also called sessions.

   This court is now in session.

5. 5
   noun

   The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.

   Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session.

6. 6
   noun

   The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.

   So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.

7. 7
   verb

   To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.

   “I downloaded a clip from a drummer, who I now realize is Bernard Purdie, who has sessioned on all kinds of records,” he said.

8. 8
   noun

   a meeting of spiritualists

Etymology

From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).