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State most commonly refers to:

  • State (polity), a centralized political organization that imposes and enforces rules over a population within a territory.
  • Sovereign state, a sovereign political entity in international law, commonly referred to as a "country"
  • Nation state, a state (usually sovereign) in which the great majority identify as a single culture (often defined as an ethnic group)
  • 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

State may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Literature

  • State Magazine, a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State
  • The State (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, United States
  • Our State, a monthly magazine published in North Carolina and formerly called The State
  • The State (Larry Niven), a fictional future government in three novels by Larry Niven

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