State

State commonly refers to either the condition of a system or entity, or to a governed entity (such as a country) or subentity (such as an autonomous territory of a country).

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Law and politics

State (polity), the organization of the body politic; could also be a legal person
Sovereign state, a sovereign political entity in public international law
Nation state, a state which coincides with a nation
Member state, a member of an international organization such as the United Nations
Federated state, a political entity forming part of a federal sovereign state such as the United States, Australia, India and Brazil
"State", is in some contexts virtually synonymous with "government", e.g., to distinguish from private entities

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 and 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 momenta 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
Our State, a North Carolina monthly magazine once called The State
State Theatre (disambiguation), the name of several theatres

Religion

State (theology), a degree or stage of perfection in the Christian religion