State (disambiguation)

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same or a similar title.

Politics

• State (polity) [r]: A supreme corporate entity that has a legal existence that is distinct from its constituents and that exercises sovereign political authority over a country. ^[e]
  • Country [r]: Nation, state, region, or territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture. ^[e]
• Sovereign state [r]: Political association with effective internal and external sovereignty over a geographic area and population which is not dependent on, or subject to any other power or state. ^[e]
• Nation state [r]: Form of state that derives its political legitimacy from serving as a sovereign entity for a nation as a sovereign territorial unit. ^[e]
• Pseudostate [r]: A term put forward by the author and journalist Adam Hochschild to refer to political states or regions where power rests with a government or organisation either outside the country or in some way unaccountable - for example, a local militia. ^[e]
• Small state [r]: A term used by the secretariat of the Commonwealth of Nations to denote a country with a population not greater than 1.5 million. ^[e]
• Core state [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Islamic state [r]: Nation with a government and legal system conducted in accordance with Islamic religious law. ^[e]

Physics

• Steady state [r]: A situation with constant system properties despite non-vanishing energy flow. ^[e]
• Mixed state [r]: A concept for describing a quantum mechanical system whose state is not known precisely, but can possibly be in a collection of pure states, with a certain probability of being in one of the pure states. ^[e]

Computer science

• State diagram [r]: Add brief definition or description