State

  1. Proper noun.  State University, as the shortened form of any public university name.
  2. Noun.  Any sovereign polity. A government.
  3. Noun.  A political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy, for example one of the fifty United States. See also Province.
  4. Noun.  A condition.
  5. Noun.  Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
  6. Noun.  (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
  7. Noun.  (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
  8. Noun.  (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
  9. Noun.  (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
  10. Noun.  (science) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
  11. Noun.  (mathematics, stochastic processes) an element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
  12. Noun.  (obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.
  13. Verb.  (transitive) To declare to be a fact.
  14. Verb.  (transitive) To make known.

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