(US, geography) The portion of the United States which is located on the North American continent; the United States exclusive of Hawaii and other overseas territories.

The official name of Micronesia.

plural of persistive vegetative state

plural of Hartle-Hawking state

An expansive region encompassing the southeastern and south-central part of the United States, typically defined as including the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Virginia, sometimes also Maryland, Delaware, Washington, D.C., and Missouri.

The quality of state of being.

The official nickname for the state of New York in the United States of America. / Empire State Building

(systems theory) A variable that describes the state of a dynamical system.

a political state, in the widest sense, which is ruled as or like a principality in the generic sense, regardless of the ruler's actual title and rank.

(physics) Any of a class of multipartite entangled quantum states that can be interpreted using the mathematics of graph theory