At the highest level of development at a particular time; cutting-edge.

The flower officially chosen as a symbol for a state of the United States.

The overall physical condition of a person, as opposed to mental condition (state of mind).

A social system in which the state takes overall responsibility for the welfare of its citizens, providing health care, education, unemployment compensation and social security.

Alternative form of solid-state

(quantum mechanics) Any of the possible states of a quantum mechanical system.

(derogatory) A state whose government institutions are authoritative and over-paternalistic, interfering with and controlling people's lives.

The capital city of a state (national subdivision).

(chemistry) the state of an atom having a particular oxidation number

(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".