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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: (くに, kuni) (1), (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

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