State (disambiguation)
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State or The State may refer to:
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[edit] Government
- A sovereign political entity
- State
- Unitary state
- Nation-state
- State (law), a well-defined jurisdiction, with its own set of laws and courts.
- State (country subdivision), a non-sovereign subnational political entity in several countries
- The States, an assembly of the representatives of the estates of the realm in a subnational entity
- The States of Holland
- The parliaments of the Channel Islands: the States of Jersey and the States of Guernsey
- States-General, a national assembly of the estates, a legislature
- The States, a colloquial reference to the United States of America
- Colloquially, the US State Department
[edit] Media and music
- The State (TV series), a sketch comedy show on MTV
- The States (History Channel), a documentary on the United States
- The State (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina
- State (magazine), an Irish monthly rock music magazine
- The State (album), a post-grunge music album by Nickelback
- States Records, a record label
[edit] In computing
- State (computer science), a unique configuration of information in a program or machine.
- Program state
- State pattern, a behavioral design pattern.
[edit] Theatres
[edit] Other
- A colloquial term for North Carolina State University
- A unit of measurement invented by Anthony Capon on March 5, 2008. It is equivalent to 5 Capones or .4522313556433242 feet.
- A general condition, as in "state of being".
- Formal dignity or pomp, as in "riding in state".
- A condition (state) that a chemical substance could be in.
- State (physics), a term in physics, particularly in thermodynamics, statistical physics, and dynamical systems and chaos theory
- State (controls), a term related to control theory.
- State (functional analysis)
- State (printmaking), e.g. a matrix printed from and then revised gives prints in two states
- State (NLP), a term in neuro-linguistic programming
- Status constructus, a noun form occurring in Semitic languages (such as Arabic and Hebrew) and in the extinct Egyptian language.
- State (economics), as in "the state of the world," about which there is generally uncertainty
- State (theology)
- The State (the artist collective), a collective of artists/critics/historians in Ottawa, Canada
[edit] In fiction
- Fullmetal Alchemist - Amestris, known as "the State" in the anime.