the way something is with respect to its main attributes | information that should be kept in mind when making a decision |
a politically organized body of people under a single government | the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition |
the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state | an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else |
the territory occupied by a nation | (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement |
the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation | a state at a particular time |
a state of depression or agitation | a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing |
(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) | the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape') |
| an illness, disease, or other medical problem |