The most general meaning of the term state is a manner of existing, a combination of attributes belonging to a thing (paraphrased from the Oxford English Dictionary). In physics the term state has various, more specific meanings in thermodynamics, in classical mechanics, and in quantum mechanics, but all include the notion that a knowledge of the state is sufficient to make predictions about the future behavior of the system.
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Ballentine, L. (2009). States in Quantum Mechanics. In Compendium of Quantum Physics (pp. 742–744). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70626-7_210
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