Session
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/* Computing */ Got rid of the "point in time" and changed it to "time"
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'''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 time and torn down at a later time. Examples are:
** [[Transmission Control Protocol|TCP]] sessions
** HTTP sessions, using [[session cookie]]s
** 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 (Linkin Park song)|"Session"]], an instrumental song by Linkin Park from their 2003 album [[Meteora (album)|Meteora]]
*"Session", a song by The Offspring from their 1992 album [[Ignition (album)|Ignition]]
*[[Session musician]], musicians available for hire
==See also==
*[[Cession]]
*[[Sessions]]
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