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State or The State may refer to:

Contents 1 In government 1.1 State 1.2 The States 2 In printmaking 3 Named media 4 In mathematics, science, and technology 5 Official ceremonies 6 Other uses

[edit] In government

[edit] State

• Sovereign state, a sovereign political entity
• Nation state, a sovereign state which coincides with a nation.
• State (administrative division), a component entity of a sovereign state, usually a federation
  • A federated state of Australia
  • A federated state of Austria
  • A federated state of Brazil
  • A federated state of Germany
  • A federated state of India
  • A federated state of Malaysia
  • A federated state of Mexico
  • A federated state of the Federated States of Micronesia
  • A federated state of Nigeria
  • A federated state of Sudan
  • A federated state of the United States
  • A federated state of Venezuela
• State (law), a well-defined jurisdiction, with its own set of laws and courts

[edit] The States

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

[edit] In printmaking

• State (printmaking), a unique form of a print, caused by a deliberate change to a matrix

[edit] Named media

• State (magazine), an Irish monthly jazz music magazine
• 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 on the United States
• The State (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina
• States Records, an American record label
• State Theatre, the name of several theatres

[edit] In mathematics, science, and technology

• State (computer science), a unique configuration of information in a program or machine
• State (controls), a term related to control theory
• State (functional analysis), a positive linear functional on an operator algebra
• State (physics), particularly in thermodynamics, statistical physics, and dynamical systems and chaos theory
• State of matter, solid, liquid or vapour phases of matter
• Chemical state, the electronic, chemical and physical nature of an element
• Program state, in computer science, a snapshot of the measure of various conditions in the system
• Quantum state, in physics, the state of a quantum mechanical system given by a vector in the underlying Hilbert space
• State pattern, in computer science, a behavioral design pattern
• Thermodynamic state, a set of physical quantities describing variable properties of a given thermodynamic system

[edit] Official ceremonies

• State visit
• State funeral

[edit] Other uses

• State (theology), a degree or stage of perfection in the Christian religion
• Construct state, in linguistics, a noun form occurring in Semitic languages

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