Look up: state

1. State
   A state is an independent body of persons united in a political society for the purpose of resisting external aggression and maintaining internal order. The functions which distinguish a State from any other community, e.g. a Church, are thus the external and internal use of force; and these two uses of force, though essentially the same, may be distinguished as extrajudicial and judicial.
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2. State
   See Scene.
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3. State
   Another word used to describe a country or its government.
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4. State
   (i) Variations between the different copies of the same impression. (ii) successive stages of the evolution of a printing plate. (iii) Used, as in the physical appearance or condition.
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5. State
   A political apparatus (government institutions, plus civil service officials) ruling over a given territory, with an authority backed by law and the ability to use force. Not all societies are characterized by the existence of a state. Hunting and gathering cultures, and smaller agrarian societies, lack state institutions. The emergence of the state marks a distinctive transition in human history, because the centralization of political power involved in state forma-tion introduces new dynamics into processes of social change.
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6. state
   [adj] - supported and operated by the government of a state 2. [adj] - in the service of the community or nation 3. [n] - (informal) a state of depression or agitation 4. [n] - the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation 5. [n] - the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state 6. [n] - a politically organized body of people under a single government 7. [n] - the way something is with respect to its main attributes 8. [v] - express in words
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7. State
   See nation state
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8. State
   A lighting term, referring to the lanterns (qv) and their dimmer (qv) settings, used in a particular cue. We talk of a "full-up state" when all lanterns are used at full brightenss, or a "red state", when only lanterns with red filters are on. During the plotting of the lighting, the operator may be told to "go back to a state of 2", which means to set the dimmers as they were in cue 2.
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9. State
   Solution to Schroedinger equation defined by a unique set of quantum numbers.
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10. state
    Territory that forms its own domestic and foreign policy, acting through laws that are typically decided by a government and carried out, by force if necessary, by agents of that government. It can...
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11. State
    In organic chemistry, will produce CO2 + H2O + (possibly other compounds)
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12. State
    The total ongoing mental and physical conditions from which a person is acting. The state we are in affects our capabilities and interpretation of experience.
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13. state
    (storage, architecture, jargon, theory) How something is; its configuration, attributes, condition, or information content. The state of a system is usually temporary (i.e. it changes with time) and volatile (i.e. it will be lost or reset to some initial state if the system is switched off). A state may be considered to be a point in some space of …
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14. state
    the assigned range of voltage,current,etc.,corresponding to one of the distinct recognisable conditions of a digital signal Category: Electrical engineering and energy • data structure which gives a snapshot of the condition of the problem at each stage of its solution Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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15. State
    State noun [ Middle English stat , Old French estat , French état , from Latin status a standing, position, from stare , statum , to stand. See Stand , and confer Estate , Status .] 1. The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time. « State is a term nearly synonymous with "mode," but of a …
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16. State
    State adjective 1. Stately. [ Obsolete] Spenser. 2. Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.
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17. State
    State transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Stated ; present participle & verbal noun Stating .] 1. To set; to settle; to establish. [ R.] « I myself, though meanest stated , And in court now almost hated.» Wither. « Who calls the council, states the certain day.» Po …
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18. State
    State noun A statement; also, a document containing a statement. [ R.] Sir W. Scott.
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19. state
    <chemistry> The condition of the system at a given time, it is usually defined by an equation which is called an equation of state. ... (09 Jan 1998) ...
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20. state
    nation noun a politically organized body of people under a single government; `the state has elected a new president`; `African nations`; `students who had come to the nation`s capitol`; `the country`s largest manufacturer`; `an industrialized land`
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21. state
    noun the way something is with respect to its main attributes; `the current state of knowledge`; `his state of health`; `in a weak financial state`
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22. state
    noun the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; `his state is in the deep south`
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23. state
    the government of a territory; a politically independent country or region; in some countries (such as the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Germany), a self-governing component of a federal nation
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24. State
    A `state` is a political association with effective dominion over a geographic area. It usually includes the set of institutions that claim the authority to make the rules that govern the people of the society in that territory, though its status as a state often depends in part on being recognized by a number of other states as having internal and external sovereignty over it. In sociology, the state is normally identified with these institution...
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25. State
    A `state` is a political association with effective dominion over a geographic area. It usually includes the set of institutions that claim the authority to make the rules that govern the people of the society in that territory, though its status as a state often depends in part on being recognized by a number of other states as having internal and external sovereignty over it. In sociology, the state is normally identified with these institution...
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