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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
session (plural sessions)
- 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 training session
- "Are we having a recording session?" / "Yes. We've even got some session musicians to provide some brass."
- 2009, Michael Otto; Stefan G. Hofmann, Avoiding Treatment Failures in the Anxiety Disorders, page 137:
- Alternatively, if the patient is stuck ritualizing before session, then the therapist might want to create contingencies that might help the patient come in on time
- A meeting of a council, court, school, or legislative body to conduct its business.
- This court is now in session.
- (computing) 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.
- (cricket) 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.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien
- But Vivien, gathering somewhat of his mood, […] / Leapt from her session on his lap, and stood.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- (music) Ellipsis of jam session
- (education) An academic term.
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Translations[edit]
period devoted to a particular activity
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meeting of a body to conduct business
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(computing) the sequence of interactions between client and server
Verb[edit]
session (third-person singular simple present sessions, present participle sessioning, simple past and past participle sessioned)
- (music) To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.
- 2009 May 3, Virginia Heffernan, “World Music”, in New York Times[1]:
- “I downloaded a clip from a drummer, who I now realize is Bernard Purdie, who has sessioned on all kinds of records,” he said.
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Finnish[edit]
Noun[edit]
session
- Genitive singular form of sessio.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French session, borrowed from Latin sessiō, sessiōnem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
session f (plural sessions)
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Further reading[edit]
- “session” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin sessiō, sessiōnem.
Noun[edit]
session f (oblique plural sessions, nominative singular session, nominative plural sessions)
Descendants[edit]
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