BVSM - Sharing Data

 A meeting is a assemblage of two or more citizenries that has been convoked for the purpose of achieving a common goal through verbal interaction, such as sharing data or reaching agreement. Meetings may come face to face or almost, as arbitrated by communications technology, such as a telephone conference call, a skyped conference call or a videoconference. In a meeting, two or more people interact with each other to talk about one or more issues, often in a formal scope.

Thus, a meeting may be recognised from other gatherings, such as an attempt encounter (not convened), a sports game or a concert (verbal interaction is incidental), a party or the fellowship of friends (no common goal is to be achieved) and a presentation (whose common goal is attained mainly through the number of sales demonstrators present, not verbal interaction).
xBL.Com mercially, the term is used by meeting planners and other meeting professional persons to point to an event held at a hotel, convention center or any other venue committed to in such assemblies.  In this signified, the word meeting continues a lecturing (one presentation), seminar (typically respective presentations, small audience, one day), conference (mid-size, one or more days), congress (big, respective days), exhibition or trade show (with manned stands being visited by passers-by), workshop (minor, with dynamic players), training course, team-building sitting and kick-off case.