meeting vs session

meeting

noun
  • A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly. 

  • A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence. 

  • The people at such a gathering. 

  • The act of persons or things that meet. 

  • An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). 

  • An encounter between people, even accidental. 

session

noun
  • A meeting of a council, court, school, or legislative body to conduct its business. 

  • 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. 

  • A period devoted to a particular activity, e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislative body (that together comprise the legislative term) whose individual meetings are also called sessions. 

  • The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected. 

  • An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content. 

  • An academic term 

verb
  • To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians. 

How often have the words meeting and session occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )