(formal, historical) Official name of Manchukuo from 1932 to 1934.

plural of prison state

(politics) A state that severely restricts the freedom of its citizens.

plural of Rydberg state

(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.

plural of bellwether state

A type of systemic political corruption in which a small number of private businesses influence government policy to their own advantage.

(grammar) A noun and attributive adjective form, occurring in Aramaic and Old South Arabian and by minority reconstructed for Proto-Semitic, where the word spearheads what is perceived as an agglutinated determiner.

(genetics) Two identical alleles or two identical segments or sequences of DNA; segments which are not identical by descent and therefore do not share a recent common ancestor

(video games) The state of a gameworld at a given time, comprising all player locations, object states, narrative variables, etc.