State

State may refer to:

Law and politics

• State (polity), an organised 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 federal union that is the Republic of India
    • U.S. state, a constituent state of the United States
• United States Department of State, a department in the Executive Branch of the United States Government dealing with foreign affairs.

Science and technology

Medicine

• Medical state, one's current state of health, usually within a hospital
• Mental state (disambiguation)

Physics and chemistry

• 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. it describes the organization of matter in a phase
• Chemical state, the electronic, chemical and physical nature of an element

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 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

Mathematics

• 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

Arts and entertainment

Literature

• The State (Larry Niven), a fictional government in the works of Larry Niven
• The State (book), a book by German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer

Media

• The State (album), a music album by Nickelback
• The State (TV series), a sketch comedy show on MTV
• 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, US

Magazines

• State (magazine), an Irish monthly music magazine
• State Magazine, a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State

Other uses

• State (theology), a degree or stage of perfection in the Christian religion
• Status constructus, a noun form occurring in Semitic languages
• State Theatre (disambiguation), several theatres
• Nickname for State College, Pennsylvania and Penn State

See also

• Government, the system by which a state or community is controlled
• Condition (disambiguation)
• Constituent state, a territorial and constitutional entity forming part of a sovereign state
• Excited state, an elevation in energy level above an arbitrary baseline energy state
• Stative verb, in linguistics
• All pages beginning with "State"
• All pages with titles containing State
• Status (disambiguation)
• The States (disambiguation)