diplomatic vs state

diplomatic

noun
  • The science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography. 

adj
  • Exhibiting diplomacy; exercising tact or courtesy; using discussion to avoid hard feelings, fights or arguments. 

  • describing a publication of a text which follows a single basic manuscript, but with variants in other manuscripts noted in the critical apparatus 

  • Concerning the relationships between the governments of countries. 

  • Relating to diplomatics, or the study of old texts; paleographic. 

state

noun
  • Pomp, ceremony, or dignity. 

  • A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system. 

  • Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance. 

  • Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government. 

  • A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself. 

  • A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India. 

  • A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government. 

  • The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time. 

  • Rank; condition; quality. 

  • A mess; disorder. 

  • The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle. 

  • The set of all parameters relevant to a computation. 

  • The values of all parameters at some point in a computation. 

  • The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma. 

  • A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time. 

  • An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process. 

verb
  • To declare to be a fact. 

  • To make known. 

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