State

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State may refer to:

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"
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
  - Indian state, a constituent state of the Republic of India
  - U.S. state, a constituent state of the United States
  - States of Germany, a constituent state of Germany
  - States of Nigeria, a constituent state of Nigeria
United States Department of State, a department in the Executive Branch of the United States federal government dealing with foreign affairs
The State by Franz Oppenheimer, outlining the origin and structure of sovereign states and government

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; describing the organization of matter in a phase
Chemical state, the electronic, chemical and physical nature of an element

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

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

The State (album), a music album by Nickelback
The State (TV series), a sketch comedy show on MTV
The State (2017 TV serial), four-part drama about British Muslims joining Islamic State in Syria
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, United States