State

State or The State may refer to:

In government

• Sovereign state, a sovereign political entity in international public law
• Federated state, a political entity forming part of a federal sovereign state (includes a list)
• State (polity), the state in sociology and political science
• Nation state, a state which coincides with a nation.

The States

• The Estates or the States, a national assembly of the estates, a legislature
• States-General (disambiguation)
• Colloquially, the United States

In printmaking

• State (printmaking), a unique form of a print, caused by a deliberate change to a matrix

Named media

• State (magazine), an Irish monthly music magazine
• State Magazine, a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State
• The State (album), a music album by Nickelback
• The State (book), a book by German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer
• The State (TV series), a sketch comedy show on MTV
• The States (TV series), a documentary series on the United States
• The State (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina
• States Records, an American record label
• State Theatre, the name of several theatres

Health

• Medical state, one's current state of health, usually within a hospital setting
• Mental state (disambiguation)
  • Qualia, the philosophical treatment of mental states
  • Philosophy of mind, which covers the broader concepts of mental states

Physical science

• State (physics) (list of 8 definitions), particularly in thermodynamics, statistical physics, and dynamical systems and chaos theory
• 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
• Chemical state, the electronic, chemical and physical nature of an element
• Quantum state, in physics, the state of a quantum mechanical system given by a vector in the underlying Hilbert space

Applied sciences and mathematics

• 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 (controls), a term related to control theory
• State (functional analysis), a positive linear functional on an operator algebra
• State pattern, in computer science, a behavioral design pattern

Literature

• The World State, from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The State, from the works of Larry Niven

Other uses

• State (theology), a degree or stage of perfection in the Christian religion
• Construct state, in linguistics, a noun form occurring in Semitic languages
• Adjectivally, or in the phrase "in state", a most elaborate ceremonial form, such as is appropriate to an occasion or personage formally representing the full power and authority of a political state, as in State Visit, State Dress, State Opening of Parliament, State Dinner, etc.
• "State" is often used as a shorthand reference to a local college or university that has the word "State" in its name; for example, North Carolina State University or Michigan State University.

See also

• Church and State
• Disposition
• Status
• Territory
• Jurisdiction (area), an area with a set of laws under the control of a system of courts which are different to neighbouring areas