State

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'''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 (examples below) * State of nature, a concept within philosophy that describes the way humans acted before forming societies or civilizations

'''State''' may also refer to:

{{TOC right}} ==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 === {{div col| colwidth = 16em }} * 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 {{end div col}}

=== 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) *Statement (disambiguation) *Status (disambiguation) *The States (disambiguation) * {{look from}} * {{in title}} {{Disambiguation}}