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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 ''Our State'' (full title: ''Our State: Down Home in North Carolina'') is a monthly magazine based in Greensboro, North Carolina, featuring travel and history articles and photographs about North Carolina people, places and events. First publishe ...
'', a monthly magazine published in North Carolina and formerly called ''The State'' *
The State (Larry Niven) "The State" is a fictional totalitarian world government in a future history that forms the back-story of three of Larry Niven's novels: ''A World Out of Time'' (1976), '' The Integral Trees'' (1984), and '' The Smoke Ring'' (1987). It is also the ...
, a fictional future government in three novels by Larry Niven


Music


Groups and labels

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States Records States Record Company was a Chicago-based record label. A subsidiary of United Recording, it was in business from May 1952 to December 1957. States focused on rhythm and blues, jazz, and gospel. States was operated by Leonard Allen and Lew ...
, an American record label *
The State (band) The State were an Australian band, which formed as The Cutters. Their second single, "Real Love" (October 1988), was nominated for the 1989 ARIA Award for Best New Talent. They released their debut album, ''Elementary'', in February 1989. After ...
, 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 Klinik, (sometimes called The Klinik), is an industrial music band from Belgium, originally formed around 1982 by electro-synthpop practitioner Marc Verhaeghen, who is the only constant member. History Marc Verhaeghen originally formed Klinik ...
* ''The State'' (album), a 1999 album by Nickelback


Television

* ''The State'' (American TV series), 1993 * ''The State'' (British TV series), 2017


Other

* The State (comedy troupe), an American comedy troupe


Law and politics

* State (polity), a centralized political organization that imposes and enforces rules over a population within a territory. * Sovereign state, a sovereign political entity in international law, commonly referred to as a "country" ** List of sovereign states *
Nation state A nation state is a political unit where the state and nation are congruent. It is a more precise concept than "country", since a country does not need to have a predominant ethnic group. A nation, in the sense of a common ethnicity, may inc ...
, a state (usually sovereign) in which the great majority identify as a single culture (often defined as an ethnic group) *
Constituent state Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constituent state, as well as many similar terms, are generic names for geographical areas into which a particular, ind ...
, a type of political subdivision of a nation **
Federated state A federated state (which may also be referred to as a state, a province, a region, a canton, a land, a governorate, an oblast, an emirate or a country) is a territorial and constitutional community forming part of a federation. Such states ...
, 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 The States of South Sudan were created out of the three historic former provinces (and contemporary regions) of Bahr el Ghazal (northwest), Equatoria (southern), and Greater Upper Nile (northeast). The states are further divided into 79 cou ...
, 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 In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sov ...
, any constituent state of the United States **
States of Palau Palau is divided into sixteen administrative regions, called states. Palau has a high ratio of government offices to citizens, with 16 states and both a tribal chiefdom and elected legislature in each state, for 20,000 people.''Patterson, Carolyn ...
** States of Myanmar * ''
Rechtsstaat ''Rechtsstaat'' (lit. "state of law"; "legal state") is a doctrine in continental European legal thinking, originating in Dutch and German jurisprudence. It can be translated into English as "rule of law", alternatively "legal state", state of ...
'', the legal state (constitutional state, state subordinated to law) in the philosophy of law and as a principle of many national constitutions * 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

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State College, Pennsylvania State College is a home rule municipality in Centre County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is a college town, dominated economically, culturally and demographically by the presence of the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania Sta ...
, a city in the United States, often referred to informally as "State" **
State College Area High School State College Area High School, often referred to locally as "State High," is a public high school in State College, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the only public high school in the State College Area School District and is within walking d ...
, or "State High" *
State station State station (also called State Street) is an underground Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) rapid transit station located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It is the transfer point between the Orange Line and the Blue Line ...
, subway station in Boston *
State station (CTA) State was a station on the Englewood Branch of the Chicago 'L' (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes ...
, 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 The state pattern is a behavioral software design pattern that allows an object to alter its behavior when its internal state changes. This pattern is close to the concept of finite-state machines. The state pattern can be interpreted as a strategy ...
, 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 Classical mechanics is a physical theory describing the motion of macroscopic objects, from projectiles to parts of machinery, and astronomical objects, such as spacecraft, planets, stars, and galaxies. For objects governed by classical m ...
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Chemical state The chemical state of a chemical element is due to its electronic, chemical and physical properties as it exists in combination with itself or a group of one or more other elements. A chemical state is often defined as an "oxidation state" when refe ...
, 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 A stationary state is a quantum state with all observables independent of time. It is an eigenvector of the energy operator (instead of a quantum superposition of different energies). It is also called energy eigenvector, energy eigenstate, ener ...
, 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 In thermodynamics, a thermodynamic state of a system is its condition at a specific time; that is, fully identified by values of a suitable set of parameters known as state variables, state parameters or thermodynamic variables. Once such a set ...
, 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

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Ball State University Ball State University (Ball State, State or BSU) is a public research university in Muncie, Indiana. It has two satellite facilities in Fishers and Indianapolis. On July 25, 1917, the Ball brothers, industrialists and founders of the Ball Co ...
, in Muncie, 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 *
State Theatre (disambiguation) State Theatre or State Theater may refer to: Australia * State Theatre, Adelaide, former cinema in Hindley Street built on the site of the old Wondergraph * State Theatre (Melbourne), a theatre opened in 1984, part of the Arts Centre Melbourne ...
, several theatres * States (automobile), cyclecar manufactured by the States Cyclecar Co of Detroit, Michigan in 1915


See also

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Condition (disambiguation) Condition or conditions may refer to: In philosophy and logic * Material conditional, a logical connective used to form "if...then..." statements * Necessary and sufficient condition, a statement which is true if and only if another given statem ...
* Government, the system by which a state or community is controlled *
New states (disambiguation) New states may refer to: Creating new sovereign states (countries) * List of proposed state mergers to create new sovereign states *Lists of active separatist movements * List of historical separatist movements Creating new administrative subdivis ...
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Stateless (disambiguation) Stateless may refer to: Society * Anarchism, a political philosophy opposed to the institution of the state * Stateless communism, which Karl Marx predicted would be the final phase of communism * Stateless nation, a group of people without a ...
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Status (disambiguation) Status (Latin plural: ''statūs''), is a state, condition, or situation, and may refer to: * Status (law) ** City status ** Legal status, in law ** Political status, in international law ** Small entity status, in patent law ** Status conferen ...
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The States (disambiguation) The States can refer to: *United States * The Estates, a representative assembly in many (feudal) historical countries *The States Assembly, the legislative body of Jersey *The States General, the legislative body of the Netherlands *The States of ...
* * {{Disambiguation