Any of the three primary divisions of a state’s sovereignty (namely, the executive, the legislature, or the judiciary); the powers of each having been divided and balanced in accordance with the political principle of the separation of powers.

(quantum mechanics) Any state of the Fock space with a well-defined number of particles in each state.

(control engineering) A mathematical model of a physical system as a set of input, output and state variables related by first-order differential equations.

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

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.

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