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      state
      noun
      A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
      (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
      (colloquial, in the singular) A mess; disorder; a bad condition or set of circumstances.
      (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
      (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
      (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
      (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
      High social standing or circumstance.
      Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
      Rank; condition; quality.
      Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
      A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
      A polity or community.
      (historically often capitalized) A sovereign country or city-state and its government, often used as synonym of the latter.
      A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.
      (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
      (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
      (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
      (often with definite article) The current governing polity, country, city-state, or community under which the speaker lives.
      A current governing polity, country, city-state, or community.
      State University, as the shortened form of a public university name.
      (obsolete) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
      (obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.
      (obsolete) Estate, possession.
      (obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy.
      verb
      (transitive) To declare to be a fact.
      (transitive) To make known.
      adjective
      (obsolete) Stately.
      Roots
      stostat- · Latin · stand
      Synonyms for state
      nationncommonwealthncountrynfederaladjprovincenpolityngovernmentnsayvgovernmentaladjnationaladj
      Words related to state
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