the way something is with respect to its main attributes | in constant change |
a politically organized body of people under a single government | (physics) the number of changes in energy flow across a given surface per unit area |
the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state | a flow or discharge |
the territory occupied by a nation | the lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a moving charged particle |
the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation | excessive discharge of liquid from a cavity or organ (as in watery diarrhea) |
a state of depression or agitation | a state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action |
(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) | a substance added to molten metals to bond with impurities that can then be readily removed |
| the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface |