panic vs state

panic

noun
  • A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream. 

  • Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet. 

  • Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare. 

  • A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline. 

  • A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass. 

  • The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants. 

adj
  • Pertaining to or resulting from overwhelming fear or fright. 

  • Of fear, fright, etc: overwhelming or sudden. 

verb
  • To cause (a computer system) to crash. 

  • To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head. 

  • To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily. 

  • Of a computer system: to crash. 

  • To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show). 

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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