A small room where confession (the sacrament of reconciliation) is performed. Traditional architecture has used three adjacent rooms separated by gratings with sliding doors; the priest hearing the confessions sits in the middle room and alternately opens one of the doors to hear confession from the person kneeling on that side
A chair, or rather booth, in various constructional variations, typically in church or chapel, where the confessor, seated in one compartment, can privately (to protect the sacred secret of the sacrament) hear confession from the person in the other
The debugging technique wherein a programmer explains a problem to someone else, and in the process realizes the source of it
Programmers call the computer equivalent confessional debugging. Hey, Eric, can you look at this code? I can't understand why it doesn't--oh! Never mind..
Writing style of the author of a qualitative research report; the author reveals everything; allows the reader to validate and verify both what was discovered and how it was discovered
A confessional speech or writing contains confessions. The convictions rest solely on disputed witness and confessional statements. a place in a church, usually an enclosed room, where a priest hears people make their confessions. confessional speech or writing contains private thoughts or feelings that you would normally keep secret
The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest's ear without being seen by him or heard by others