session

See also: Session

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɛʃən
• Homophone: cession

Noun

session (plural sessions)

1. A period devoted to a particular activity.

   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

2. A meeting of a council, court, school, or legislative body to conduct its business.

   This court is now in session.

3. (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.

4. (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.
5. (obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
   • Hooker

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

   • Tennyson

     But Vivien, gathering somewhat of his mood, […] / Leaped from her session on his lap, and stood.

6. (music) jam session
7. (education) An academic term.

Hyponyms

• bull session

Derived terms

• parasession
• session-replicated
• sessionless
• session musician

Related terms

Terms related to session

• session ale

• session beer

• session bitter

Translations

period devoted to a particular activity

• Arabic: جَلْسَة‎‎ f (jalsa)
• Armenian: նստաշրջան (hy) (nstašrǰan), սեանս (hy) (seans)
• Belarusian: сэ́сiя f (sésija), се́сія f (sjésija), сеа́нс m (sjeáns)
• Bulgarian: се́сия (bg) f (sésija)
• Catalan: sessió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 會期 (zh), 会期 (zh) (huìqī)

• Czech: sezení (cs) n
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: sessie (nl) f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: istung, seanss
• Finnish: istunto (fi)
• French: séance (fr) f
• Georgian: სესია (sesia)
• German: Sitzung (de) f
• Greek: συνεδρίαση (el) f (synedríasi)
• Haitian Creole: sesyon
• Hebrew: יְשִׁיבָה‎‎ (he) f (y'shivá)
• Hungarian: ülés (hu)

• Irish: seisiún m
• Italian: sessione f, tornata (it) f, seduta (it) f
• Japanese: 会期 (かいき, kaiki)
• Khmer: សម័យប្រជុំ (sa’may prɑcum)
• Korean: 회기 (hoegi)
• Maori: tūnga
• Persian: نشست‎‎ (fa) (nešast)
• Polish: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: sessão (pt) f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: се́ссия (ru) f (séssija), сеа́нс (ru) m (seáns)
• Scottish Gaelic: seisean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: sesija (sh) f

• Spanish: sesión (es) f
• Swedish: session (sv)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: се́сія (uk) f (sésija), сеа́нс m (seáns)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: sesiwn (cy) f

meeting of a body to conduct business

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: նիստ (hy) (nist)
• Catalan: sessió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 会议 (zh) (huìyì)

• Czech: zasedání (cs) n
• Dutch: zitting (nl) f
• Finnish: istunto (fi), kokous (fi)
• French: session (fr) f
• Greek: σύνοδος (el) f (sýnodos)
• Irish: suí m
• Italian: sessione f

• Khmer: សម័យប្រជុំ (sa’may prɑcum)
• Maori: tūnga, nohoanga
• Persian: نشست‎‎ (fa) (nešast), همايش‎‎ (fa) (hamâyeš)
• Portuguese: sessão (pt) f
• Russian: се́ссия (ru) f (séssija), заседа́ние (ru) n (zasedánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: coinneamh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сједница, састанак, сесија, засједање

  Roman: sjednica (sh), sastanak (sh), sesija (sh), zasjedanje (sh)

• Spanish: sesión (es) f
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

(computing) the sequence of interactions between client and server

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通信期 (tōngxìn qī)

• Finnish: istunto (fi)
• French: session (fr) f

• Portuguese: sessão (pt) f
• Russian: се́ссия (ru) f (séssija)
• Scottish Gaelic: seisean m

Verb

session (third-person singular simple present sessions, present participle sessioning, simple past and past participle sessioned)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• essoins, osseins

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Finnish

Noun

session

1. Genitive singular form of sessio.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

session f (plural sessions)

1. session, period
2. (computing) session

Further reading

• “session” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sessiō.

Noun

session f (oblique plural sessions, nominative singular session, nominative plural sessions)

1. sitting; session (of a court, a committee, etc.)

Descendants

• English: session
• French: session