session
Meaning
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- A period devoted to a particular activity, e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislative body (that together comprise the legislative term) whose individual meetings are also called sessions.
- A meeting of a council, court, school, or legislative body to conduct its business.
- The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.
- Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
- (obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
- Ellipsis of jam session.
- An academic term
- An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈsɛʃ(ə)n/
Etymology
From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).
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