State or The State may refer to: [edit] In government - Sovereign state, a sovereign political entity in international public law
- Federated state, a political entity forming part of a federal sovereign state
- State (polity), the state in sociology and political science
- Nation state, a state which coincides with a nation.
- State (law), a well-defined jurisdiction, with its own set of laws and courts
[edit] The States [edit] In printmaking [edit] Named media [edit] Health - Medical state, one's current state of health, usually within a hospital setting
- Mental state, or state of mind, a health status describing one's current mental health status on an emotional, cognitive or psychiatric level
- Qualia, the philosophical treatment of mental states
- Philosophy of mind, which covers the broader concepts of mental states
[edit] 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
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[edit] 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.
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