State (disambiguation)

State or The State may refer to:

Government

* A sovereign political entity
** State
** Unitary state
** Nation-state
** State (law), a well-defined jurisdiction, with its own set of laws and courts.
*State (country subdivision), a non-sovereign subnational political entity in several countries
** States and territories of Australia
** States of Austria
** States of Brazil
** States of Germany
** States and territories of India
** States of Mexico
** U.S. state
* The States, an assembly of the representatives of the estates of the realm in a subnational entity
** The States of Holland
** The parliaments of the Channel Islands: the States of Jersey and the States of Guernsey
** States-General, a national assembly of the estates, a legislature
* The States, a colloquial reference to the United States of America
* Colloquially, the US State Department

Media and music

* "The State" (TV series), a sketch comedy show on MTV
* "The States" (TV series), a documentary on the United States
* "The State" (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina
* "State" (magazine), an Irish monthly rock music magazine
* "The State" (album), a post-grunge music album by Nickelback
* States Records, a record label

In computing

* State (computer science), a unique configuration of information in a program or machine.
* Program state
* State pattern, a behavioral design pattern.

In physics and mathematics

* Quantum state, the state of a quantum mechanical system given by a vector in the underlying Hilbert space
* Thermodynamic state, a set of physical quantities describing (usually) variable properties of a given thermodynamic system.
* State (functional analysis), is a positive linear functional on an operator algebra

Theatres

Other

* A colloquialism used informally in place of the full name of a state university; for example, Pennsylvania "State" University
* A general condition, as in "state of being".
* Formal dignity or pomp, as in "riding in state".
* A condition (state) that a chemical substance could be in.
* State (physics), a term in physics, particularly in thermodynamics, statistical physics, and dynamical systems and chaos theory

* State (controls), a term related to control theory.
* State (functional analysis)
* State (printmaking), e.g. a matrix printed from and then revised gives prints in two states
* State (NLP), a term in neuro-linguistic programming
* Status constructus, a noun form occurring in Semitic languages and in the Egyptian language.
* State (economics), as in "the state of the world," about which there is generally uncertainty
* State (theology)
* The State (the artist collective), a collective of artists/critics/historians in Ottawa, Canada
* The State (book), a book by German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer

In fiction

*Fullmetal Alchemist - Amestris, known as "the State" in the anime.

ee also

*Stateless
*Nanny state
*Statism
*Welfare state
*Finite state machine
*Representational State Transfer