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state meaning

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  • State commonly refers to either the condition of a system or entity,
  • NounPLstatesSUF-té
    1. A polity.
      1. Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
      2. Well monarchies may own religion's name, / But states are atheists in their very fame.
    2. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
      1. a state of being;   a state of emergency ‎
      2. States in which the energy has definite values are called stationary states of a system; they are described by wave functions Ψn which are the eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian operator, i.e. which satisfy the equation ĤΨn = EnΨn, where En are the eigenvalues of the energy.
      3. In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus. ‎
      4. The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far. ‎
      5. A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint. ‎
    3. High social standing or circumstance.
      1. The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol. ‎
      2. Thy honour, state, and seat is due to me.
      3. She instructed him how he should keep state, and yet with a modest sense of his misfortunes.
      4. His high throne, [ …] under state / Of richest texture spread.
      5. They who to States and Governours of the Commonwealth direct their Speech [ …] ; I suppose them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a little alter'd and mov'd inwardly in their mindes [ …] .
      6. (Can we find and add a quotation of Daniel to this entry?)
    4. (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
    5. VerbSGstatesPRstatingPT, PPstated
      1. VT To declare to be a fact.
        1. He stated that he was willing to help. ‎
      2. VT To make known.
        1. State your intentions. ‎
    6. AdjectiveCOMmore stateSUPmost state
      1. OBS stately.
      2. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • Neck and segment 1 of Semnoderes armiger in dorsal view, showing the deep middorsal incision in the anterior segment margin (arrow) (character 17, state 2).
          • America’s first “foliologist,” Scotty Johnston, has announced predictions for the best color periods throughout the United States and Canada.
          • To determine the oligomeric state of purified Kv1.3 proteins, Kv1.3 proteins solubilized in Fos-12 were exchanged into amphipols (A8-35) (Anatrace) following a modified protocol [ 72 ].
        2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
          • State collection and dissemination have been abstracted away from the application by the common-map abstraction.
        3. Used in the Ending of Sentence
          • With memory that slow, the processor is going to spend most of its time on wait states.
          • Last year, Wall Street raked in $8.5 billion in fees for acting as behind-the-scenes consiglieres in the United States.
          • The liver appears to have also been in the adipescent state.

      Meaning of state for the defined word.

      Grammatically, this word "state" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a reporting verb and a transitive verb.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Adjectives
          • Nouns
            • Countable nouns
            • Verbs
              • Reporting verbs
                • Transitive verbs
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