State
Appearance
State may refer to:
Law and politics
- State (polity), an organized political community living under a single system of government
- Sovereign state, a sovereign political entity in international law, commonly referred to as a "country"
- The Estates or the States, a national assembly of the estates, a legislature
- Rechtsstaat, the legal state (constitutional state, state subordinated to law) in philosophy of law and as principle of many national constitutions
- Constituent state, a type of political subdivision of a nation
- Federated state, a constituent state that is part of a federal model and shares sovereignty with the federal government
- U.S. state, a constituent state of the United States, the most prominent example of a federated constituent state
Science and technology
- Medical state, one's current state of health, usually within a hospital setting
- Mental state (disambiguation)
Physics and chemistry
- State, a complete description of a system in classical mechanics
- Quantum state, the state of a quantum mechanical system given by a vector in the underlying Hilbert space
- Stationary state, an eigenvector of a Hamiltonian
- Thermodynamic state, a set of physical quantities describing variable properties of a given thermodynamic system
- 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
Mathematics
- State (controls), a term related to control theory
- State (functional analysis), a positive linear functional on an operator algebra
- In Dynamical systems, a state is a fixed rule describing the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space
Arts and entertainment
Literature
- "The State" (Larry Niven), a fictional government in the works of Larry Niven
- The State (book), a book by German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer
Media
- The State (album), a music album by Nickelback
- The State (TV series), a sketch comedy show on MTV
- The States (TV series), a documentary series on the United States
- States Records, an American record label
- The State (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, US
Magazines
- State (magazine), an Irish monthly music magazine
- State Magazine, a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State
Other uses
- State (theology), a degree or stage of perfection in the Christian religion
- Status constructus, a noun form occurring in Semitic languages
- State Theatre (disambiguation), several theatres
- Nickname for State College, Pennsylvania and Penn State
See also
- Government, the system by which a state or community is controlled
- Condition (disambiguation)
- Constituent state, a territorial and constitutional entity forming part of a sovereign state
- Excited state, an elevation in energy level above an arbitrary baseline energy state
- Status (disambiguation)
- Stative verb, in linguistics