session

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A meeting of a legislative or judicial body for the purpose of transacting business.
2. n. A series of such meetings.
3. n. The term or duration of time that is taken by such a series of meetings.
4. n. The part of a year or of a day during which a school holds classes.
5. n. An assembly of people for a common purpose or because of a common interest: a gossip session.
6. n. Law A court of criminal jurisdiction in the United States: the court of sessions.
7. n. A period of time devoted to a specific activity, as to recording music in a studio.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of sitting, or the state of being seated: now rare except in the specific theological sense of Christ's sitting or enthronement at the right hand of God the Father. Also assession.
2. n. The sitting together of a body of individuals for the transaction of business; the sitting of a court, academic body, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of these or any similar body for the transaction of business: as, the court is now in session (that is, the members are assembled for business).
3. n. The time, space, or term during which a court, council, legislature, or the like meets daily for business, or transacts business regularly without breaking up. Thus, a session of the legislature commonly means the period from its assembling to its adjournment for the year or season, in contra-distinction to its daily sessions during that period. So a session of Parliament comprises the time from its meeting to its prorogation, of which there is in general but one in each year. Technically at common law it was held that a meeting of Parliament could not be called a session unless the sovereign passed an act. The session of a judicial court is called a termination Also applied in the United States to the daily or half-daily periods of work of a school.
4. n. plural In law, a sitting of justices in court, originally, as in England, upon commission: as, the sessions of oyer and terminer. See oyer.
5. n. Eccles., the lowest court of the Presbyterian Church, composed of the pastor and ruling or lay elders of the local church. It has the power to admit and discipline members, regulate the times of service, and administer all the spiritual affairs of the local church, and is answerable for its acts to the presbytery. In the Established Church of Scotland it is specifically called the kirk session (which see, under kirk).

Wiktionary

1. n. A period devoted to a particular activity; a training session.
2. n. A meeting of a council, court, or legislative body to conduct its business.
3. n. Used in reference to web applications, a session is the sequence of interactions between the server and a user. A users session can store persistent data between different web pages. For instance, a person might login to a site on one page, then go on using other pages on the site. The login step begins a session where the server tracks information about that specific user. Sessions typically expire after a set time of non-interaction and are removed from the server's memory.
4. n. A period of play in which the players only leave the field at a change of innings; the three sessions are between start of play, lunch, tea and close of play
5. n. The performance of music by local musicians in a public place, with its origions in Gaelic culture. A musical performance broadcast for a radio show.
6. n. Gaming with friends for an extended period of time, Online,Splitscreenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_screen_(computer_graphics) or via a LAN connection.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
2. n. The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business.
3. n. Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the time during which a school holds classes
2. n. a meeting devoted to a particular activity
3. n. a meeting for execution of a group's functions
4. n. a meeting of spiritualists