sessions

Noun

session (plural sessions)

1. A period of time devoted to a particular activity.
   • counseling session
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. (obsolete) 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.[1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)
6. An academic term; semester; school year.

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