session

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

A series of such meetings.

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

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

A period of time devoted to a specific activity.

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.

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).

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.

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