State

"States" redirects here. For the disambiguation page about "The States", see The States (disambiguation).

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.
• State of nature, a concept within philosophy that describes the way humans acted before forming societies or civilizations.

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

• 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

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
• 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)
• All pages with titles beginning with State
• All pages with titles containing State