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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”).

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

Science and technology

Biology & psychology

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

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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