Definition of "state"
- noun
Any sovereign polity. A government.
A political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy, for example one of the fifty United States.
A condition.
Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.
- verb
To declare to be a fact.
To make known.
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