session vs term

session

noun
  • An academic term 

  • 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. 

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

  • 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. 

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

term

noun
  • Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year. 

  • A computer program that emulates a physical terminal. 

  • Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made. 

  • A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan. 

  • The time during which legal courts are open. 

  • Certain days on which rent is paid. 

  • Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length. 

  • The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice. 

  • Relations among people. 

  • That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus. 

  • A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept. 

  • Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table. 

  • The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force. 

  • A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail. 

  • An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart. 

  • A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal. 

  • With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception). 

  • One whose employment has been terminated 

  • Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract. 

adj
  • Born or delivered at term. 

verb
  • To phrase a certain way; to name or call. 

  • To terminate one's employment 

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