0 a formal meeting or series of meetings of an organization such as a parliament or a law court: --
1 a period of time or meeting arranged for a particular activity: --
2 at a college, any of the periods of time that a teaching year or day is divided into, or the teaching year itself: --
Access is restricted when school is in session.
3 a formal meeting of an organization, esp. of a legislature or law court: --
4 a period of time or a meeting arranged for a particular activity: --
5 a period of time or meeting arranged for a particular activity: --
the opening/closing session She spoke at the opening session of the conference.
a planning/brainstorming session
So far the intense negotiating sessions have failed to yield any substantial progress.
There are regular training sessions at the firm's central office.
I'm having a session with her this afternoon for a briefing.
However, both forms co-occur in the same session with variants showing the expected reduplicative onset : violin-bin and goldfish-poldfish.
In nine studies (11;15-18;23;26;29;31), only group sessions took place, and in one study, this feature was unclear (31).
Typically, the undergraduates experience only two observation sessions of between two and four hours.
To reduce the observer effect, the researcher visited the participants' homes before the observation session and interacted with all the family members.
The procedures used during the two visits were identical, with each session lasting approximately 2 hours.
The speech discrimination test was given after the glide tasks in a separate session.
Data from both sessions were required in order to obtain sufficient word types and production tokens to conduct a variability analysis.
Another trained research assistant independently re-examined 11 % of the participants' data by viewing each videotaped session.
