Any sovereign polity.
A government.
A political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy, for
example one of the fifty United States.
See also Province.
A condition.
A State of being.
A State of emergency.
Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
The President's
body will lie in State at the Capitol.
(computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus.
(computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
The State here includes a set containing all
names seen so far.
(computing) The
values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
A debugger can show the State of a program at any breakpoint.
(anthropology) A
society larger than a tribe.
A
society large enough to form a State in the sense of a government.
(sciences) The physical
property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma
(mathematics, stochastic processes) an element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.