State
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Illustration:Liberty Leading the People (1831, detail) by Eugène Delacroix.
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State commonly refers to either the present condition of a system or entity, or to a governed entity (such as a country) or sub-entity (such as an autonomous territory of a country).
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Etymology
From Latin status (“manner of standing, attitude, position, carriage, manner, dress, apparel”), from stare (“to stand”).
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Political science
- State (polity), an organized political community, living under a government
- Sovereign state, a sovereign political entity in public international law; a society having exclusive domain over a territory
- "State", in some contexts virtually synonymous with "government", e.g., to distinguish state (government) from private schools
- Nation state, a state which coincides with a nation
- Federated state, a political entity forming part of a federal sovereign state such as the USA, Australia, India and Brazil
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Science and technology
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Biology & psychology
- Medical state, one's current state of health, usually within a hospital setting
- Mental state (disambiguation)
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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
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Computing
- State (printmaking), a unique form of a print, caused by a deliberate change to a matrix
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Physics
- In classical mechanics, state is a complete description of a system in terms of parameters such as positions and momentums 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
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See also
- Status
- State of nature
- Nascent state
- City-state
- Welfare state
- Police state
- State (printmaking)
- Altered state of consciousness
- Separation of church and state
- Mental state
- Persistent vegetative state
- State within a state
- The Myth of the State (1946) by Ernst Cassirer
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