a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986 | the way something is with respect to its main attributes |
a republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States | a politically organized body of people under a single government |
(astronomy) a measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion; terrestrial time is mean solar time corrected for the irregularities of the Earth's motions | the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state |
| the territory occupied by a nation |
| the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation |
| a state of depression or agitation |
| (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container) |