The official name of Israel.

A state in which power is held by a single political party.

(usually derogatory) A polity whose government exercises strict and repressive control of the people.

(rare) to sum the indeterminate state and the determinate state in one term / to denote the only state not construct state as in the binary state system of Ugaritic

A state with absolute sovereignty and authority, in contrast with e.g. a feudal state. / A particularly dishevelled, sorry or contemptible condition.

plural of state pattern

(software, design) A behavioural design pattern similar to the strategy pattern that is used to represent the state of an object.

Ellipsis of Washington State University or its athletic teams. / Alternative letter-case form of Washington state: synonym of Washington, the US state of Washington.

A state governed by a puppet government.

(physics) Any of those electronically excited states of an atom or molecule with energies that follow the Rydberg formula as they converge on an ionic state with an ionization energy.