State
State may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Literature
- State Magazine, a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State
- The State (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, United States
- Our State, a monthly magazine published in North Carolina and formerly called The State
Music
Groups and labels
- States Records, an American record label
- The State (band), Australian band previously known as the Cutters
Albums
- State (Todd Rundgren album), album by American rock musician Todd Rundgren
- States (album), 2013 album by the indie folk band The Paper Kites
- States, an album by Klinik
- The State (album), a 1999 music album by Nickelback
Television
- The State (1993 TV series), an American sketch-comedy series
- The State (2017 TV series), a four-part drama about British Muslims joining Islamic State in Syria
- The States (TV series), a documentary series on the United States
Law and politics
- State (polity), an organized community living under a single political structure and government, sovereign or constituent
- Sovereign state, a sovereign political entity in international law, commonly referred to as a "country"
- 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
- States and union territories of India, constituent states of the Republic of India
- States and territories of Australia, constituent states of Australia
- States of Brazil, constituent states of Brazil
- States of Germany, constituent states of Germany
- States of Mexico, constituent states of Mexico
- States of Nigeria, constituent states of Nigeria
- States of South Sudan, constituent states of South Sudan
- States of Sudan, constituent states of Sudan
- States of Austria, constituent states of Austria
- States and federal territories of Malaysia, constituent monarchies and territories of Malaysia
- States of Micronesia, constituent states of Micronesia
- States and regions of Somalia, constituent states of Somalia
- States of Venezuela, constituent states of Venezuela
- U.S. state, any constituent state of the United States
- Federated state, a constituent state that is part of a federal model and shares sovereignty with the federal government
- Rechtsstaat, the legal state (constitutional state, state subordinated to law) in the philosophy of law and as a principle of many national constitutions
- Nation-state, a state (usually sovereign) in which the great majority identify as a single culture (often defined as an ethnic group)
- The Estates or the States, a national assembly of the estates of the realm, an early form of legislature that was common throughout feudal Europe
- United States Department of State, a division of the executive branch of the United States federal government, dealing with foreign affairs; sometimes referred to as "State", for short, in American political jargon.
Locations
- State College, a city in the United States, often referred to informally as "State"
- State College Area High School, or "State High"
Mathematics
- State (controls), a term related to control theory
- State (functional analysis), a positive linear functional on an operator algebra
- State, in dynamical systems, is a fixed rule describing the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space
Science and technology
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 (printmaking), a unique form of a print, caused by a deliberate change to a matrix
- State (website), semantic web platform created by London, UK-based Equal Media Ltd
- State pattern, in computer science, a behavioral design pattern
Healthcare
- Medical state, one's current state of health, usually within a hospital
- Mental state
Physics and chemistry
- State, a complete description of a system in classical mechanics
- Chemical state, the electronic, chemical and physical nature of an element
- 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
- State of matter, solid, liquid or gaseous phases of matter; describing the organization of matter in a phase
- Thermodynamic state, a set of physical quantities describing variable properties of a given thermodynamic system
Universities
- Michigan State University, in East Lansing, United States
- Michigan State Spartans, the athletic teams, commonly referred to as "State"
Other uses
- State (theology), a degree or stage of perfection in the Christian religion
- State Theatre (disambiguation), several theatres
- States (automobile), cyclecar manufactured by the States Cyclecar Co of Detroit, Michigan in 1915
See also
- Condition (disambiguation)
- Government, the system by which a state or community is controlled
- New states (disambiguation)
- Stateless (disambiguation)
- Status (disambiguation)
- The States (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with State
- All pages with titles containing State
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