State

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State may refer to:

Law and politics

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

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

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

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