Session
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Session may refer to:
Bureaucracy
*Executive session, a portion of the United States Senate's daily session
*Judicial session
*Legislative session
*Session (parliamentary procedure)
*Presbyterian polity
*Court of Session, the supreme civil court of Scotland
*session
Computing
*Session (computer science), also known as a communication session, is a semi-permanent interactive information exchange between communicating devices that is established at a certain time and torn down at a later time. Examples are:
** TCP sessions
** HTTP sessions, using session cookies
** Sessions established by some session layer protocol
** Session Description Protocol, a format for describing streaming media initialization parameters
** Session Initiation Protocol, a computer network protocol often used for IP telephony, and for setting up and tearing down peer-to-peer communication sessions consisting of one or several media streams
*Login session
*Optical disc authoring#Sessions, how data is laid out on an optical disc
*A group of process groups in POSIX-conformant operating systems
Music
*Jam session, where musicians gather and play
*Recording session, where musicians record music together
*Pub session, playing music in a public house
*"Session", an instrumental song by Linkin Park from their 2003 album Meteora
*"Session", a song by The Offspring from their 1992 album Ignition
*Session musician, musicians available for hire
ee also
*Cession
*Sessions
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session — [ sesjɔ̃ ] n. f. • 1657; angl. session; « séance » mil. XVe; « fait d être assis » déb. XIIe; lat. sessio ♦ Période pendant laquelle une assemblée délibérante, un tribunal tient séance. Sessions ordinaires (fixées par la loi). Session… … Encyclopédie Universelle
session — ses‧sion [ˈseʆn] noun 1. [countable] also trading session FINANCE a period of time, usually a day, when buying and selling takes place on the stockmarket: • The Euro slid sharply in the European trading se … Financial and business terms
session — ses·sion n: a meeting or series of meetings of a body (as a court or legislature) for the transaction of business; also: the period between the first meeting of a legislative or judicial body and the final adjournment see also regular session,… … Law dictionary
Session — Ses sion, n. [L. sessio, fr. sedere, sessum, to sit: cf. F. session. See {Sit}.] 1. The act of sitting, or the state of being seated. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Session — (lateinisch sessio von sedere, sitzen) ist ein aus dem Lateinischen stammendes und im Englischen übliches Wort, dessen deutsche Übersetzung Sitzung ist. In lateinisch oder englisch geprägten Bereichen ist Session auch im Deutschen… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Session 9 — est un film américain réalisé par Brad Anderson et sorti en salles en 2001. Sommaire 1 Synopsis 2 Fiche technique 3 Distribution 4 Autour du film … Wikipédia en Français
Session — Sf Sitzungsperiode per. Wortschatz fach. (16. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus l. sessiō ( ōnis) Sitzung , Abstraktum zu l. sedēre (sessum) sitzen . Über das Englische ist entlehnt Session Musikveranstaltung mit viel improvisierter Musik . Ebenso … Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache
session — late 14c., periodical sitting of a court, from O.Fr. session, from L. sessionem (nom. sessio) act of sitting, from pp. stem of sedere to sit (see SEDENTARY (Cf. sedentary)). Sense of period set aside for some activity is first recorded 1920, in… … Etymology dictionary
session — Session. s. f. Seance d un Concile, dans laquelle on decide quelque question touchant la foy, ou la discipline. La premiere, la seconde session. le Concile dans une telle session ordonna, &c … Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
session — [sesh′ən] n. [ME < L sessio < sedere, to SIT] 1. a) the sitting together or meeting of a group; assembly, as of a court, legislature, council, etc. b) a continuous, day to day series of such meetings c) the term or period of such a meeting… … English World dictionary
