state

n. 1. Condition, situation. What's the state of your latest hack? It's
winning away. The system tried to read and write the disk simultaneously and
got into a totally wedged state. The standard question What's your state?
means What are you doing? or What are you about to do? Typical answers are
about to gronk out , or hungry. Another standard question is What's the
state of the world? , meaning What's new? or What's going on?. The more
terse and humorous way of asking these questions would be State-p?. Another
way of phrasing the first question under sense 1 would be state-p latest
hack?. 2. Information being maintained in non-permanent memory (electronic
or human).

