State (disambiguation)

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State or The State may refer to:

[edit] 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

[edit] Media and music

• The State (TV series), a sketch comedy show on MTV
• The States (History Channel), 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

[edit] In computing

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

[edit] Theatres

Main article: State Theatre

[edit] Other

• A colloquial term for North Carolina State University
• A unit of measurement invented by Anthony Capon on March 5, 2008. It is equivalent to 5 Capones or .4522313556433242 feet.
• 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 (such as Arabic and Hebrew) and in the extinct 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

[edit] In fiction

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

[edit] See also

• Nanny state
• Statism
• Welfare state
• Finite state machine
• Representational State Transfer

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