State commonly refers to either the present condition of a system or entity, or to a governed entity (such as a country) or sub-entity (such as an autonomous territory of a country).

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Political science [edit]

• State (polity), an organized political community, living under a government
• Sovereign state, a sovereign political entity in public international law
• "State", in some contexts virtually synonymous with "government", e.g., to distinguish state (government) from private schools
• Nation state, a state which coincides with a nation
• Federated state, a political entity forming part of a federal sovereign state such as the USA, Australia, India, and Brazil
• Member state, a member of an international organization

Legislatures [edit]

• The Estates or the States, a national assembly of the estates, a legislature
• States-General (disambiguation)

Jurisprudence [edit]

• Rechtsstaat, the legal state (constitutional state, state subordinated to law) in philosophy of law and as principle of many national constitutions

Science and technology [edit]

Biology & psychology [edit]

• Medical state, one's current state of health, usually within a hospital setting
• Mental state (disambiguation)

Chemistry [edit]

• State of matter, solid, liquid or vapour phases of matter. it describes the organization of matter in a phase
• Chemical state, the electronic, chemical and physical nature of an element

Computing [edit]

• State (computer science), a unique configuration of information in a program or machine
  • Program state, in computer science, a snapshot of the measure of various conditions in the system
  • State pattern, in computer science, a behavioral design pattern
• State (printmaking), a unique form of a print, caused by a deliberate change to a matrix
• State (software), animation software for YouTube and social media sites

Linguistics [edit]

• Status constructus, a noun form occurring in Semitic languages

Mathematics [edit]

• State (controls), a term related to control theory
• State (functional analysis), a positive linear functional on an operator algebra

Physics [edit]

• In classical mechanics, state is a complete description of a system in terms of parameters such as positions and momentums at a particular moment in time
• Quantum state, in physics, the state of a quantum mechanical system given by a vector in the underlying Hilbert space
• Excited state
• Dynamical systems, a concept in mathematics where a fixed rule describes the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space
• Stationary state, an eigenvector of a Hamiltonian
• Thermodynamic state, a set of physical quantities (e.g. temperature, pressure, and composition) describing variable properties of a given thermodynamic system

Entertainment and communication [edit]

Literature [edit]

• The World State, from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The State (Larry Niven), from the works of Larry Niven

Media [edit]

• State (magazine), an Irish monthly music magazine
• State Magazine, a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State
• The State (album), a music album by Nickelback
• The State (book), a book by German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer
• The State (TV series), a sketch comedy show on MTV
• The States (TV series), a documentary series on the United States
• The State (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina
• States Records, an American record label
• Our State, a North Carolina monthly magazine once called The State
• State Theatre (disambiguation), the name of several theatres

Religion [edit]

• State (theology), a degree or stage of perfection in the Christian religion

See also [edit]

• All pages beginning with State
• Status (disambiguation)

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