Difference between SSL connection and SSL session

What is the difference between SSL connection and SSL session ???

This is what my lecture notes has to say which I makes no sense to me ( I am new to SSL)

SSL Connection:

• A transient peer-to-peer communications link.


• Each connection is associated with one SSL session.

SSL Session:

• A session is an association between client and server.


• It is created by the Handshake Protocol.


• It defines a set of security parameters.


• It may be shared by multiple SSL connections.


• It is useful to avoid expensive negotiations of security parameters for each connection. Single session has many connections. Every connection has a different key

I tried googling for it but the results dont show up anything useful.

The only thing I know is that a single SSL session can have multiple SSL connections.

Can someone explain to me what the differences are in simple terms ??