Session may refer to:

Bureaucracy and law

Session (parliamentary procedure) According to ''Robert's Rules of Order'', a widely used guide to parliamentary procedure, a meeting is a gathering of a group of people to make decisions. This sense of "meeting" may be different from the general sense in that a meeting in genera ...

* Session (Presbyterian), a governing body in Presbyterian polity *

Court of Session The Court of Session is the highest national court of Scotland in relation to Civil law (common law), civil cases. The court was established in 1532 to take on the judicial functions of the royal council. Its jurisdiction overlapped with othe ...

, the supreme civil court of Scotland *

Executive session An executive session is a term for any block within an otherwise open meeting (often of a board of directors or other deliberative assembly) in which minutes are taken separately or not at all, outsiders are not present, and the contents of the dis ...

, a portion of the United States Senate's daily session *

Legislative session A legislative session is the period of time in which a legislature, in both parliamentary and presidential systems, is convened for purpose of lawmaking, usually being one of two or more smaller divisions of the entire time between two electi ...

Computing

Session (computer science) In computer science and networking in particular, a session is a time-delimited two-way link, a practical (relatively high) layer in the TCP/IP protocol enabling interactive expression and information exchange between two or more communication d ...

, a semi-permanent interactive information exchange between communicating devices *

Session (web analytics) In web analytics, a session, or visit is a unit of measurement of a user's actions taken within a period of time or with regard to completion of a task. Sessions are also used in operational analytics and provision of user-specific recommendations ...

, in web analytics, measuring a continuous period of browsing of a website by a particular user *Session, a group of process groups in

POSIX The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX; ) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems. POSIX defines application programming interfaces (APIs), along with comm ...

-conformant operating systems *

Login session In computing, a login session is the period of activity between a user logging in and logging out of a (multi-user) system. On Unix and Unix-like operating systems, a login session takes one of two main forms: * When a textual user interface is ...

* Session (software), a cross-platform end-to-end encrypted instant messaging application.

Music

Contexts

Jam session A jam session is a relatively informal musical event, process, or activity where musicians, typically instrumentalists, play improvised solos and vamp over tunes, drones, songs, and chord progressions. To "jam" is to improvise music without ...

, where musicians gather and play *

Pub session A pub session (seisiún in Irish Language, Irish; seisean in Scottish Gaelic; seshoon in Manx Gaelic) is performing music in the setting of a public house, local pub, in which the music-making is intermingled with the consumption of ale, stout ...

, playing music in a public house * Recording session, where musicians record music together

Works

* ''Session'' (Ned's Atomic Dustbin album), a 2004 album by Ned's Atomic Dustbin *"Session", an instrumental song by Linkin Park from their 2003 album ''

Meteora The Meteora (; , ) is a rock formation in the regional unit of Trikala, in Thessaly, in northwestern Greece, hosting one of the most prominent complexes of Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox monastery, monasteries, viewed locally as se ...

'' *"Session", a song by The Offspring from their 1992 album '' Ignition'' *"Session", a song by Tyler the Creator from the album '' Bastard''

Other uses in music

* CD sessions, the layout of data on a compact disc or DVD *

Session musician A session musician (also known as studio musician or backing musician) is a musician hired to perform in a recording session or a live performance. The term sideman is also used in the case of live performances, such as accompanying a reco ...

, musicians available for hire

Other uses

Academic term An academic term (or simply term) is a portion of an academic year during which an educational institution holds Class (education), classes. The school timetable, schedules adopted vary widely. Common terms such as semester, trimester, and quarte ...

, sometimes called a "session" *

Session of Christ The Session of Christ or heavenly session is a Christian doctrine stating 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 "th ...

, the Christian doctrine of Jesus' place in heaven *'' Session: Skate Sim'', a skateboarding video game released in 2022 *''Session'', a 2018 short film directed by Buğra Mert Alkayalar