multisessionadj.
/ˌmʌltɪˈsɛʃn/, U.S. /ˌməltiˈsɛʃ(ə)n/; see also multi- comb. form. 1. Consisting of, relating to, or involving more than one session.
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1957 Science 24 May 1049/3 The American Psychiatric Association..will have a multisession symposium on the social aspects of tranquilizing drugs.
1964 R. L. Frey & A. F. Truscott Official Encycl. Bridge 599/1 Swiss system (for multi-session team-of-four events), a method which has been used successfully for many years in major chess tournaments.
2000 Arizona Republic (Electronic ed.) 14 July Fear is only one of the battles Alexis and her campmates battle each week of the multi-session summer program.
2. Computing.
a. Designating or possessing the ability to run and display more than one program, application, etc., at the same time.Since the early 1990s, when operating systems began to feature this function as a matter of course, this sense has become increasingly rare.
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1984 PC (Nexis) 24 Jan. 146 The multi-session capability alone is a significant productivity aid to programmers.
1989 UnixWorld Sept. 135/1 Multisession editors allow viewing specifications and diagrams side-by-side with code.
1995 Computerworld (Electronic ed.) 28 Aug. The product offers multisession display, an icon tool bar with scalable fonts and color attributes, SQL-based data download and data transfer upload.
b. Designating or possessing the facility to write data to a CD-ROM over two or more separate sessions.
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1992 Seybold Rep. Desktop Publishing (Nexis) 1 Jan. 22 To access the Photo CD disc, systems need a mode 2 multi-session type of CD drive.
1993 Byte Feb. 120/2 When you add another batch of pictures, it becomes a multisession CD, and only a handful of drives can track the modified directory structure.
1998 Windows (Electronic ed.) 1 Jan. The drive..supports CD-Interactive, Enhanced CD and Photo CD multisession formats.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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