Plenary vs Session - What's the difference?
plenary | session |
Fully attended; for everyone's attendance.
(theology, or, legal) Complete; full; entire; absolute.
* I. Watts
plenary session
A period devoted to a particular activity.
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A meeting of a council, court, or legislative body to conduct its business.
(computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.
(cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
(obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
* Hooker
* Tennyson
As nouns the difference between plenary and session
is that plenary is plenary session while session is a period devoted to a particular activity.As an adjective plenary
is fully attended; for everyone's attendance.plenary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A treatise on a subject should be plenary or full.
Derived terms
* plenary court * plenary session * plenary speaker * plenary talkNoun
(plenaries)- After lunch, we will all be in the main auditorium listening to the plenary .
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session
English
Noun
(en noun)- a training session
- "Are we having a recording session'''?" / "Yes. We've even got some '''session musicians to provide some brass."
- This court is now in session .
- Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session .
- So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.
- But Vivien, gathering somewhat of his mood, / Leaped from her session on his lap, and stood.