(US politics) A swing state. (In the modern United States) a state that may support the Democratic or Republican Party; a state that is equally like to vote for the Democratic or Republican Party in general; a state that behaves as a red state in some given elections and a blue state in other given elections.

A region in northern Israel containing Galilee, and Tiberias.

(computing theory) Ellipsis of finite-state machine.. / (Marxism) The state machinery; state apparatus.

The chief public representative of a nation having duties, privileges and responsibilities varying greatly depending on the constitutional rules; a monarch in a monarchy, and often styled president in a republic, but variations such as collegiality exist.

(US politics) A state which may vote Democratic or Republican, in a given election or generally.

(physics) A superposition of the most extreme states possible in a system, analogous with Schrödinger's cat, which is in a superposition of "dead" and "alive".

(US politics) The State of the Union address, an annual event in which a president of the United States reports the status of the country, normally to a joint session of the United States Congress.

(physics) any state of a particle or system of particles that has a higher energy than that of its ground state

(physics) The stationary state of lowest energy of a particle or system of particles.

A state or country that is governed constitutionally as one single unit, with one constitutionally created legislature.