session
A period of time devoted to a particular activity.
Other meanings
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.”
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.”
Related words
- cryosession
- intersession
- intrasession
- microsession
- midsession
- minisession
- multisession
- postsession
- presession
- sessionability
- sessionable
- sessional
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "sessiō" (a sitting).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “session” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.