State University, as the shortened form of any public university name.

A current governing polity.

(often with definite article) The current governing polity under which the speaker lives.

A condition or set of circumstances that can refer to a physical system, a mess or disorder, the stable condition of a processor, the set of parameters relevant to a computation, the values of parameters at a specific point in a computation, or the physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas, or plasma.

A noun "state" represents high social standing or circumstance, pomp, ceremony, dignity, rank, condition, quality, prosperity, grandeur, wealth, prosperous circumstances, social importance, a chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais, a seat of dignity, and the canopy itself.

A noun "state" represents a polity, which can refer to any sovereign polity, a political division of a federation with autonomy, or a society larger than a tribe capable of forming a government.

(mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.

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

(transitive) To declare to be a fact.

(transitive) To make known.