noun. undefined

noun. A meeting of a legislative or judicial body for the purpose of transacting business.

noun. A series of such meetings.

noun. The term or duration of time that is taken by such a series of meetings.

noun. The part of a year or of a day during which a school holds classes.

noun. A period of time devoted to a specific activity.

noun. 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.

noun. 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).

noun. 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.

noun. plural In law, a sitting of justices in court, originally, as in England, upon commission: as, the sessions of oyer and terminer. See oyer.

noun. Eccles., the lowest court of the Presbyterian Church, composed of the pastor and ruling or lay elders of the local church.

noun. The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. the lowest court in the Presbyterian Church, composed of the pastor and a body of elders elected by the members of a particular church, and having the care of matters pertaining to the religious interests of that church, as the admission and dismission of members, discipline, etc.

noun. the supreme civil court of Scotland.

noun. See under Quarter.

noun. sittings held by justices of the peace.

noun. A period devoted to a particular activity.

noun. A meeting of a council, court, or legislative body to conduct its business.

noun. The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.

noun. 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.

noun. the time during which a school holds classes

noun. a meeting devoted to a particular activity

noun. a meeting for execution of a group's functions

noun. a meeting of spiritualists

"A two-day mini-meeting on the special topic of Biological Anthropology (April 26-27) will include four symposia, a platform session, and a poster session¬, all designed to shed light on cranial and postcranial functional anatomy, adaptations in soft-tissue anatomy and fossil evidence for human evolution."

clerk of the session  county sessions  court of session  court of sessions  general session of the peace  

bull session  

get together  meeting  

Hessian  accession  aggression  compression  concession  

act  ball  current  data  debate  

Council of Nicaea  Council of Trent  Lateran Council  Vatican Council  abundant year