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State

Return to State (computer science), Stateless, Stateful, Persistence, Storing State

“There is no such thing as a stateless architecture. All applications store state somewhere” - Alex Chircop, CEO, StorageOS

state on Wiktionary

State may refer to:

Science and technology

Computing

State (computer science), a unique configuration of information in a program or machine
- Program state, in computer science, a snapshot of the measure of various conditions in the system
State pattern, in computer science, a behavioral design pattern
State machine, in computer science, a finite-state machine (FSM), also called as a finite-state automaton (FSA, plural: automata), finite automaton, or simply a state machine, is a mathematical model of computation

Healthcare

Medical state, one's current state of health, usually within a hospital
Mental state

Physics and chemistry

State, a complete description of a system in classical mechanics
Chemical state, the electronic, chemical and physical nature of an element
Quantum state, the state of a quantum mechanical system given by a vector in the underlying Hilbert space
Stationary state, an eigenvector of a Hamiltonian
State of matter, solid, liquid or gaseous phases of matter; describing the organization of matter in a phase
Thermodynamic state, a set of physical quantities describing variable properties of a given thermodynamic system

Law and politics

State (polity), an organized community living under a single political structure and government, sovereign or constituent
Sovereign state, a sovereign political entity in international law, commonly referred to as a “country”
- List of sovereign states
Nation state, a state (usually sovereign) in which the great majority identify as a single culture (often defined as an ethnic group)
Constituent state, a type of political subdivision of a nation
- Federated state, a constituent state that is part of a federal model and shares sovereignty with the federal government
  - U.S. state, any constituent state of the United States
United States Department of State, a division of the executive branch of the United States federal government, dealing with foreign affairs; sometimes referred to as “State”, for short, in American political jargon.

Mathematics

State (controls), a term related to control theory
State (functional analysis), a positive linear functional on an operator algebra
State, in dynamical systems, is a fixed rule describing the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space

Disambiguation

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