What does "session" mean?

A period of time devoted to a particular activity.

Session

Common synonyms include: seance, abundant year, academic session, academic term, academic year, annum.

//ˈsɛ.ʃən// name, noun, verb

name, noun, verb ·Common ·High school level

Noun

1
A period of time devoted to a particular activity.
"counseling session"
2
a meeting devoted to a particular activity wordnet
3
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."
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a meeting for execution of a group's functions wordnet
5
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."

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a meeting of spiritualists wordnet
7
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.
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the time during which a school holds classes wordnet
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The act of sitting, or the state of being seated. obsolete
"So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import."
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Ellipsis of jam session, used in isolate particularly for folk music. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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An academic term; semester; school year.
12
An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.
13
The ruling body of a congregation, consisting of the pastor and elders.

Verb

1
To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.
"“I downloaded a clip from a drummer, who I now realize is Bernard Purdie, who has sessioned on all kinds of records,” he said."

Proper Noun