session

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, 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.

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:

     “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

Noun

session

1. Genitive singular form of sessio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

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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).

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.)