One of the major historical states of Italy before the peninsula was unified in 1861. It comprised those territories over which the Pope was the ruler in a civil as well as a spiritual sense.

(US politics) Rights reserved to the 50 United States which allow each one to set policy on some issues, rather than being subject to federal policy.

(US politics) A state where the Green Party of the United States (GPUS) is influential.

plural of state of mind

(law) The states of the United States, collectively. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see several, states.

The quality of state of being.

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

(physics) Any of a subset of graph states that can be fitted to a regular cubic lattice

Alternative spelling of savestate

Any politico-geographic entity (a state) that is the remnant of a previous, larger one that has been broken up.