Session

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In governing bodies, a session can refer to:

• Public bodies:
  • Executive session, a portion of the United States Senate's daily session
  • Judicial session
  • Legislative or parliamentary session
• Kirk session, part of Presbyterian polity

With respect to computers, a session can refer to:

• Session (computer science), a lasting connection using the session layer of a network protocol
• Optical disc authoring#Sessions, how data is laid out on an optical disc
• Login session
• A group of process groups

In music, a session can also refer to:

• 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

[edit] See also

• Cession
• Sessions
• Court of Session, the supreme civil court of Scotland
• Session Description Protocol, a format for describing streaming media initialization parameters
• Session Initiation Protocol, a protocol motivated by features present in the public switched telephone network
• Session musician, musicians available for hire

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