English

Noun

state (plural: states)

1. Any sovereign nation.
2. A political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy, for example one of the fifty United States. See also Province.
3. A condition (example: a state of being)
4. (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle .

   In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus.

5. (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.

   The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far.

6. (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.

   A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint.

Translations

• Dutch: staat f (1,2,3)
• Finnish: valtio (1), maa (1), osavaltio (2), tila (3)
• French: état m (1, 2, 3)
• ido: stato (1, 2), stando (3)
• Italian: stato m (1, 2, 3)
• Japanese: 国 (くに, kuni) (1), 州 (しゅう, shū) (2), 状態 (じょうたい, jōtai) (3)
• Lithuanian: valstybė f (1); valstija f (2); būsena f (3), būklė f (3)
• Spanish: estado m (1, 2, 3)
• Swedish: stat c (1, 2); nation c, land n, rike n (1); tillstånd n (3)

Transitive verb

to state (states, stating, stated)

1. To declare to be a fact. (He stated that he was willing to help.)
2. To make known. (State your intentions.)

Italian

Verb form

state

1. (second-person plural indicative present tense of stare) (you) are, you're

See also

• sta
• stai
• stanno
• stiamo
• sto