State

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:

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, US
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), 2013, by Todd Rundgren
States (album), 2013, by the Paper Kites
States, 1991, by Klinik
The State (album), 1999, by Nickelback

Songs

"The State", 2011, 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

Federated states

Constituent states

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

Other uses in 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 US federal government, dealing with foreign affairs; sometimes referred to as "State", for short, in American political jargon

Locations

State College, Pennsylvania, a city in the US, 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, US
Georgia State University, in Atlanta, US
Michigan State University, in East Lansing, US
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