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State or The State may refer to:

Government

A sovereign political entity
- State
- Unitary state
- Nation-state
- State (law), a well-defined jurisdiction, with its own set of laws and courts.
State (country subdivision), a non-sovereign subnational political entity in several countries
The States, an assembly of the representatives of the estates of the realm in a subnational entity
- The States of Holland
- The parliaments of the Channel Islands: the States of Jersey and the States of Guernsey
- States-General, a national assembly of the estates, a legislature
The States, a colloquial reference to the United States of America
Colloquially, the US State Department

State (computer science), a unique configuration of information in a program or machine.
Program state
State pattern, a behavioral design pattern.

State (physics), a term in physics, particularly in thermodynamics, statistical physics, and dynamical systems and chaos theory
Quantum state, the state of a quantum mechanical system given by a vector in the underlying Hilbert space
Thermodynamic state, a set of physical quantities describing (usually) variable properties of a given thermodynamic system.
State (functional analysis), is a positive linear functional on an operator algebra

Main article: State Theatre

A colloquialism used informally in place of the full name of a state university; for example, Pennsylvania State University
A general condition, as in "state of being".
Formal dignity or pomp, as in "riding in state".
A condition (state) that a chemical substance could be in.

State (controls), a term related to control theory.
State (functional analysis)
State (printmaking), e.g. a matrix printed from and then revised gives prints in two states
State (NLP), a term in neuro-linguistic programming
Status constructus, a noun form occurring in Semitic languages and in the Egyptian language.
State (economics), as in "the state of the world," about which there is generally uncertainty
State (theology)
The State (the artist collective), a collective of artists/critics/historians in Ottawa, Canada
The State (book), a book by German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer