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      session
      noun
      A period of time devoted to a particular activity.
      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.
      (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.
      (education) An academic term; semester; school year.
      (beer) An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.
      (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.
      (Presbyterianism) The ruling body of a congregation, consisting of the pastor and elders.
      A surname.
      (music) Ellipsis of jam session, used in isolate particularly for folk music. [(music) An informal gathering of musicians to play music, especially improvised jazz or a similar genre.]
      (Philippines, chiefly Baguio) Ellipsis of Session Road. [A barangay of Baguio, Benguet, Philippines.]
      (chiefly obsolete or theology) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
      verb
      (music) To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.
      Roots
      sedeosess- · Latin · sit
      Synonyms for session
      meetingnsittingnconferencencolloquiumnconvocationnsymposiumnassemblyndiscussionnconsultationnconventiclen
      Words related to session
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