Session
Encyclopedia
Bureaucracy
- Executive sessionExecutive sessionAn executive session is a portion of the United States Senate's daily session in which it considers nominations and treaties, or other items introduced by the President of the United States. These items are termed executive business; therefore, the session is an executive session. It can either be...
, a portion of the United States Senate's daily session - Legislative session
- Session (parliamentary procedure)Session (parliamentary procedure)In parliamentary procedure, a session is a meeting or series of connected meetings devoted to a single order of business, program, agenda, or announced purpose.-Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised :...
- Session (Presbyterian)Session (Presbyterian)A Session is a body of elected elders governing each local church within the Presbyterian polity....
, a governing body in Presbyterian polity - Court of SessionCourt of SessionThe Court of Session is the supreme civil court of Scotland, and constitutes part of the College of Justice. It sits in Parliament House in Edinburgh and is both a court of first instance and a court of appeal....
, the supreme civil court of Scotland
Computing
- Session (computer science)Session (computer science)In computer science, in particular networking, a session is a semi-permanent interactive information interchange, also known as a dialogue, a conversation or a meeting, between two or more communicating devices, or between a computer and user . A session is set up or established at a certain point...
, a semi-permanent interactive information exchange between communicating devices - Login sessionLogin sessionIn computing, a login session is the period of activity between a user logging in and logging out of a system.On Unix and Unix-like operating systems, a login session takes one of two main forms:...
- Optical disc authoring#Sessions, how data is laid out on an optical disc
- A group of process groups in POSIXPOSIXPOSIX , an acronym for "Portable Operating System Interface", is a family of standards specified by the IEEE for maintaining compatibility between operating systems...
-conformant operating systems
Music
- Jam sessionJam sessionJam sessions are often used by musicians to develop new material, find suitable arrangements, or simply as a social gathering and communal practice session. Jam sessions may be based upon existing songs or forms, may be loosely based on an agreed chord progression or chart suggested by one...
, where musicians gather and play - Recording session, where musicians record music together
- Pub sessionPub sessionA pub session refers to playing music and/or singing in the relaxed social setting of a local pub, in which the music-making is intermingled with the consumption of ale, stout, and beer and conversation...
, playing music in a public house - Session (CD)Session (CD)Data on a compact disc or a DVD are laid out in sessions. Each session consists of a lead-in, containing the session's table of contents, the program area in which the individual tracks are located, and the lead-out....
, the layout of data on a compact disc or DVD - Session (Ned's Atomic Dustbin album)Session (Ned's Atomic Dustbin album)Session was a 2004 album by Ned's Atomic Dustbin. It was released by Shakedown Records as a boxset featuring two CDs and an single interview DVD....
, a 2004 album by Ned's Atomic Dustbin - "Session", an instrumental song by Linkin Park from their 2003 album MeteoraMeteora (album)Meteora is the second studio album by American rock band Linkin Park. It was released on March 25, 2003 through Warner Bros. Records, following Reanimation, a collaboration album which featured remixes of songs included on debut studio album Hybrid Theory...
- "Session", a song by The Offspring from their 1992 album Ignition
- Session musicianSession musicianSession musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...
, musicians available for hire - Traditional Irish Music Session
Consumption
- Any prolonged or extended period of drinking alcoholAlcoholIn chemistry, an alcohol is an organic compound in which the hydroxy functional group is bound to a carbon atom. In particular, this carbon center should be saturated, having single bonds to three other atoms....
- Any prolonged or extended period of smoking marijuana
Other
- Session of ChristSession of ChristThe Christian doctrine of the Session of Christ or heavenly session says that Jesus Christ is seated at the right hand of God the Father in Heaven—the word "session" is an archaic noun meaning "sitting." Although the word formerly meant "the act of sitting down," it no longer has that meaning in...
, the Christian doctrine of Jesus' place in heaven - Academic termAcademic termAn academic term is a division of an academic year, the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. These divisions may be called terms...
, sometimes called a "session"