Shahi - A visual dictionary

See also State

(noun)
1. Any sovereign polity. A government.
  - 20C, Albert Einstein, as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949)
    Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
2. A political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy, for example one of the fifty United States. See also Province.
3. A condition.
  A state of being.
  A state of emergency.
4. Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
  The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol.
5. The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
  In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus.
6. The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
  The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far.
7. The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
  A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint.
8. A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
(verb)
1. To declare to be a fact.
  He stated that he was willing to help.
2. To make known.
  State your intentions.

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