• Arabic: (jálsa)
• Chinese: 会期 (huìqī)
• Dutch: sessie
• Finnish: istunto
• French: séance
• German: Sitzung
• Italian: sessione
• Hebrew: ישיבה
• Hungarian: ülés
• Japanese: 会期 (かいき, kaikí)
• Korean: 회기 (hoegi)
• Portuguese: sessão
• Russian: сессия
• Spanish: sesión
• Swedish: session

• Czech: zasedání
• Finnish: istunto, kokous
• Italian: sessione
• Russian: сессия, заседание
• Spanish: sesión

Derived terms

• bull session

Finnish

Noun

session

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

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 point in time and torn down at a later point in 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

See also

• Cession
• Sessions

Council of Nicaea, Council of Trent, Lateran Council, Vatican Council, abundant year, academic year, annum, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, audience, ball, bargaining, bargaining session, bissextile year, brawl, calendar month, calendar year, caucus, century, chapter, classis, colloquium, commission, committee, common year, conciliarism, conclave, concourse, confab, confabulation, conference, confrontation, congregation, congress, consistory, consultation, conventicle, convention, convocation, council, council fire, council of war, dance, date, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, diet, diocesan conference, discussion, ecclesiastical council, ecumenical council, eisteddfod, exchange of views, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, festivity, fete, fiscal year, forgathering, fortnight, forum, gathering, get-together, hearing, high-level talk, hour, housewarming, huddle, interchange of views, interview, leap year, levee, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, meet, meeting, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, month, moon, negotiations, news conference, palaver, panel, parley, parochial church council, parochial council, party, period, plenary council, plenum, pourparler, powwow, presbytery, press conference, prom, quarter, quinquennium, quorum, rally, reception, regular year, rendezvous, seance, seating, second, semester, shindig, sidereal year, sit-in, sitting, soiree, solar year, summit, summit conference, summitry, sun, symposium, synod, term, trimester, turnout, twelvemonth, vestry, week, weekday, year