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[States] [State] 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
- U.S. state
- State of nature , a concept within philosophy that describes the way humans acted before forming societies or civilizations
STATE may also refer to:
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** 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
- States Records , an American record label
- The State (band) , Australian band previously known as the Cutters
**** Albums
- _State_ (album) , a 2013 album by Todd Rundgren
- _States_ (album) , a 2013 album by the Paper Kites
- _States_ , a 1991 album by Klinik
- _The State_ (album) , a 1999 album by Nickelback
**** Songs
- "The State", a 2011 song by Porter Robinson from _Spitfire_
*** Television
- _The State_ (American TV series) , 1993
- _The State_ (British TV series) , 2017
- State (Friday Night Lights) , an episode of the TV series Friday Night Lights
*** Other
- State Theatre (disambiguation) , several theatres
- The State (comedy troupe) , an American comedy troupe
** 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:
- States of Australia
- States of Austria
- States of Brazil
- States of Germany
- States of India
- States of Malaysia
- States of Mexico
- States of Micronesia
- States of Nigeria
- States of Somalia
- States of South Sudan
- States of Sudan
- States of the United States
- States of Venezuela
Constituent states:
- States of Myanmar
- States of Palau
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:
- States of Alderney , the government and parliament of Alderney
- States of Deliberation , the government and parliament of Guernsey
- States of Jersey, including the States Assembly parliament and the Government of Jersey executive
- States-General (disambiguation) , a name for several historic and current national assemblies
** Locations
- State College, Pennsylvania , a city in the United States, often referred to informally as "State"
- State College Area High School , or "State High"
- State station , subway station in Boston
- State station (CTA) , in Chicago
** Mathematics
- State (controls) , a term related to control theory
- State (functional analysis) , a positive linear functional on an operator algebra
- State, in dynamical systems , is a fixed rule describing the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space
** 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
- Medical state , one's current state of health, usually within a hospital
- Mental state
*** 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
- State (printmaking) , distinct revisions of a work by a deliberate change to the print master
** Universities
- Ball State University , in Muncie, United States
- Georgia State University , in Atlanta, United States
- Michigan State University , in East Lansing, United States
- Michigan State Spartans , the athletic teams, commonly referred to as "State"
** Other uses
- State (theology) , a degree or stage of perfection in the Christian religion
- States (automobile) , cyclecar manufactured by the States Cyclecar Co of Detroit, Michigan in 1915
** See also
- Condition (disambiguation)
- Government , the system by which a state or community is controlled
- New states (disambiguation)
- Stateless (disambiguation)
- Status (disambiguation)
- The States (disambiguation)
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- [in title]
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