State

State may 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

Music

Groups and labels

States Records, an American record label
The State (band), Australian band previously known as the Cutters

Albums

State (Todd Rundgren album), album by American rock musician Todd Rundgren
States (album), 2013 album by the indie folk band The Paper Kites
States, an album by Klinik
The State (album), a 1999 music album by Nickelback

Television

The State (1993 TV series), an American sketch-comedy series
The State (2017 TV series), a four-part drama about British Muslims joining Islamic State in Syria
The States (TV series), a documentary series on the United States

Law and politics

State (polity), an organized 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"
- List of sovereign states
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
  - States and union territories of India, constituent states of the Republic of India
  - States and territories of Australia, constituent states of Australia
  - States of Brazil, constituent states of Brazil
  - States of Germany, constituent states of Germany
  - States of Mexico, constituent states of Mexico
  - States of Nigeria, constituent states of Nigeria
  - States of South Sudan, constituent states of South Sudan
  - States of Sudan, constituent states of Sudan
  - States of Austria, constituent states of Austria
  - States and federal territories of Malaysia, constituent monarchies and territories of Malaysia
  - States of Micronesia, constituent states of Micronesia
  - States and regions of Somalia, constituent states of Somalia
  - States of Venezuela, constituent states of Venezuela
  - U.S. state, any constituent state of the United States
Rechtsstaat, the legal state (constitutional state, state subordinated to law) in the philosophy of law and as a principle of many national constitutions
Nation-state, a state (usually sovereign) in which the great majority identify as a single culture (often defined as an ethnic group)
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
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.

Locations

State College, a city in the United States, often referred to informally as "State"
- State College Area High School, or "State High"

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

Universities

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
State Theatre (disambiguation), several theatres
States (automobile), cyclecar manufactured by the States Cyclecar Co of Detroit, Michigan in 1915

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