State

State commonly refers to either the present condition of a system or entity, or to a governed entity or sub-entity, such as a nation or province.

Political science

 * State (polity), an organized political community, living under a government
 * Sovereign state, a sovereign political entity in international public law
 * Member state, a member of an international organization
 * Federated state, a political entity forming part of a federal sovereign state


 * Nation state, a state which coincides with a nation
 * Rechtsstaat, the legal state (constitutional state, state subordinated to law) in philosophy of law and as principle of many national constitutions

Legislatures

 * The Estates or the States, a national assembly of the estates, a legislature
 * States-General (disambiguation)

Physics

 * In classical mechanics, state is a complete description of a system in terms of parameters such as positions and momentums at a particular moment in time
 * Quantum state, in physics, the state of a quantum mechanical system given by a vector in the underlying Hilbert space
 * Excited state
 * Dynamical systems, a concept in mathematics where a fixed rule describes the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space
 * Stationary state, an eigenvector of a Hamiltonian
 * Thermodynamic state, a set of physical quantities (e.g. temperature, pressure, and composition) describing variable properties of a given thermodynamic system

Chemistry

 * State of matter, solid, liquid or vapour phases of matter. it describes the organization of matter in a phase
 * Chemical state, the electronic, chemical and physical nature of an element

Biology & Psychology

 * Medical state, one's current state of health, usually within a hospital setting
 * Mental state (disambiguation)

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 pattern, in computer science, a behavioral design pattern
 * State (printmaking), a unique form of a print, caused by a deliberate change to a matrix
 * State (software), animation software for YouTube and social media sites

Literature

 * The World State, from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
 * The State (Larry Niven), from the works of Larry Niven

Linguistics

 * Status constructus, a noun form occurring in Semitic languages

Media

 * State (magazine), an Irish monthly music magazine
 * State Magazine, a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State
 * The State (album), a music album by Nickelback
 * The State (book), a book by German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer
 * The State (TV series), a sketch comedy show on MTV
 * The States (TV series), a documentary series on the United States
 * The State (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina
 * States Records, an American record label
 * State Theatre (disambiguation), the name of several theatres

Mathematics

 * State (controls), a term related to control theory
 * State (functional analysis), a positive linear functional on an operator algebra

Religion

 * State (theology), a degree or stage of perfection in the Christian religion