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State most commonly refers to:
State (polity) , a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory
Sovereign state , a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country
Nation state , a state where the majority identify with a single nation (with shared culture or ethnic group)
Constituent state , a political subdivision of a state
Federated state , constituent states part of a federation
State of nature , a concept within philosophy that describes the way humans acted before forming societies or civilizations
State may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Literature
Music
Groups and labels
Albums
Songs
"The State", a 2011 song by Porter Robinson from
Spitfire
Television
Other
Law and politics
Rechtsstaat , the legal state (constitutional state, state subordinated to law) in the philosophy of law and as a principle of many national constitutions
United States Department of State , a division of the executive branch of the United States federal government, dealing with foreign affairs; sometimes referred to as "State", for short, in American political jargon.
Federated states:
Constituent states:
The Estates or the States, a national assembly of the estates of the realm, an early form of legislature that was common throughout feudal Europe:
Locations
Mathematics
Science and technology
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 (website) , semantic web platform created by London, UK-based Equal Media Ltd
State pattern , in computer science, a behavioral design pattern
Healthcare
Physics and chemistry
State, a complete description of a system in
classical mechanics
Chemical state , the electronic, chemical and physical nature of an element
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
State of matter , solid, liquid or gaseous phases of matter; describing the organization of matter in a phase
Thermodynamic state , a set of physical quantities describing variable properties of a given thermodynamic system
Printing
Universities
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term