state
/steɪt/
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time; A polity or community.; A sovereign country or city state with a central government acting as its head and operator
- plural
- states
Meanings
- 1
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time
Don't ask what the state can do for you, but why it doesn't do it.
Tatoeba · Eldad · CC BY 2.0 FR
This is a state school.
Tatoeba · sundown · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
A polity or community.; A sovereign country or city state with a central government acting as its head and operator; national issues and affairs as opposed to local ones
- 3
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.; A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system
- 4
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.; A mess; disorder; a bad condition or set of circumstances
- 5
A polity or community.; A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India
- 6
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.; The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cyclerare
- 7
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.; The set of all parameters relevant to a computationrare
- 8
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.; The values of all parameters at some point in a computationrare
- 9
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.; The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasmarare
- 10
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.; 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; acmerare