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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Session \Ses"sion\, noun [L. sessio, fr. sedere, sessum, to sit: cf. F. session. See {Sit}.]
1. The act of sitting, or the state of being seated. [Archaic]
So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import. --Hooker.
But Viven, gathering somewhat of his mood, . . . Leaped from her session on his lap, and stood. --Tennyson.
2. The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business.
It's fit this royal session do proceed. --Shak.
3. Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term.
It was resolved that the convocation should meet at the beginning of the next session of Parliament. --Macaulay.
Note: Sessions, in some of the States, is particularly used as a title for a court of justices, held for granting licenses to innkeepers, etc., and for laying out highways, and the like; it is also the title of several courts of criminal jurisdiction in England and the United States.
{Church session}, the lowest court in the Presbyterian Church, composed of the pastor and a body of elders elected by the members of a particular church, and having the care of matters pertaining to the religious interests of that church, as the admission and dismission of members, discipline, etc.
{Court of Session}, the supreme civil court of Scotland.
{Quarter sessions}. (Eng.Law) See under {Quarter}.
{Sessions of the peace}, sittings held by justices of the peace. [Eng.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
session
noun
1: a meeting for execution of a group's functions; "it was the opening session of the legislature"
2: the time during which a school holds classes; "they had to shorten the school term" [syn: {school term}, {academic term}, {academic session}]
3: a meeting devoted to a particular activity; "a filming session"; "a gossip session"
4: a meeting of spiritualists; "the seance was held in the medium's parlor" [syn: {seance}, {sitting}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
138 Moby Thesaurus words for "session": Council of Nicaea, Council of Trent, Lateran Council, Vatican Council, abundant year, academic year, annum, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, audience, ball, bargaining, bargaining session, bissextile year, brawl, calendar month, calendar year, caucus, century, chapter, classis, colloquium, commission, committee, common year, conciliarism, conclave, concourse, confab, confabulation, conference, confrontation, congregation, congress, consistory, consultation, conventicle, convention, convocation, council, council fire, council of war, dance, date, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, diet, diocesan conference, discussion, ecclesiastical council, ecumenical council, eisteddfod, exchange of views, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, festivity, fete, fiscal year, forgathering, fortnight, forum, gathering, get-together, hearing, high-level talk, hour, housewarming, huddle, interchange of views, interview, leap year, levee, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, meet, meeting, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, month, moon, negotiations, news conference, palaver, panel, parley, parochial church council, parochial council, party, period, plenary council, plenum, pourparler, powwow, presbytery, press conference, prom, quarter, quinquennium, quorum, rally, reception, regular year, rendezvous, seance, seating, second, semester, shindig, sidereal year, sit-in, sitting, soiree, solar year, summit, summit conference, summitry, sun, symposium, synod, term, trimester, turnout, twelvemonth, vestry, week, weekday, year
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
session
1. A lasting connection between a user (or user agent) and a {peer}, typically a {server}, usually involving the exchange of many packets between the user's computer and the server. A session is typically implemented as a layer in a network {protocol} (e.g. {telnet}, {FTP}). In the case of protocols where there is no concept of a session layer (e.g. {UDP}) or where sessions at the {session layer} are generally very short-lived (e.g. {HTTP}), {virtual} sessions are implemented by having each exchange between the user and the remote host include some form of {cookie} which stores state (e.g. a unique session ID, information about the user's preferences or authorisation level, etc.). See also {login}. 2. A lasting connection using the {session layer} of a networking protocol. (1997-08-03)
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