the way something is with respect to its main attributes | (astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun) |
a politically organized body of people under a single government | (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary |
the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state | any distinct time period in a sequence of events |
the territory occupied by a nation | a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle |
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) | |