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==Political science== |
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* [[State (polity)]], an organized political community, living under a government |
* [[State (polity)]], an organized political community, living under a government |
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* [[State (United States)]] |
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* [[Sovereign state]], a sovereign political entity in public international law |
* [[Sovereign state]], a sovereign political entity in public international law |
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* [[Member state]], a member of an international organization |
* [[Member state]], a member of an international organization |
Revision as of 15:13, 10 January 2012
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 a province or region).
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Political science
- State (polity), an organized political community, living under a government
- State (United States)
- Sovereign state, a sovereign political entity in public international law
- Member state, a member of an international organization
- Federated state, a political entity forming part of a federal sovereign state
- Nation state, a state which coincides with a nation
- Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties which defines which countries are states for the purpose of being entitled to be parties to treaties
Legislatures
- The Estates or the States, a national assembly of the estates, a legislature
- States-General (disambiguation)
Jurisprudence
- Rechtsstaat, the legal state (constitutional state, state subordinated to law) in philosophy of law and as principle of many national constitutions
Science and technology
Biology & psychology
- Medical state, one's current state of health, usually within a hospital setting
- Mental state (disambiguation)
Chemistry
- 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
- 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
- Status constructus, a noun form occurring in Semitic languages
Mathematics
- State (controls), a term related to control theory
- State (functional analysis), a positive linear functional on an operator algebra
Physics
- 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
Literature
- The World State, from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The State (Larry Niven), from the works of Larry Niven
Media
- 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
- State Theatre (disambiguation), the name of several theatres
Religion
- State (theology), a degree or stage of perfection in the Christian religion