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Meaning of "microstate" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MICROSTATE

microstate  [ˈmaɪkrəʊˌsteɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MICROSTATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Microstate is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MICROSTATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Microstate

A microstate or ministate is a sovereign state having a very small population or very small land area, but usually both. Some examples include Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, Nauru, Singapore and Vatican City. The smallest fully sovereign microstate is Vatican City, with 842 citizens as of July 2013 and an area of only 0.44 km². Microstates are distinct from micronations, which are not recognized as sovereign states. Special territories without full sovereignty, such as the British Crown Dependencies, The Chinese Special Administrative Regions and overseas territories of Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom, are also not considered microstates.

Definition of microstate in the English dictionary

The definition of microstate in the dictionary is a very small nation that is an internationally-recognized sovereign state Also called: mini-state.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MICROSTATE


bistate
ˈbaɪˌsteɪt
constate
kənˈsteɪt
devastate
ˈdɛvəˌsteɪt
downstate
ˈdaʊnˌsteɪt
estate
ɪˈsteɪt
facilitate
fəˈsɪlɪˌteɪt
interstate
ˈɪntəˌsteɪt
multistate
ˈmʌltɪˌsteɪt
out-of-state
ˈaʊtəvˌsteɪt
outstate
ˌaʊtˈsteɪt
petrostate
ˈpɛtrəˌsteɪt
prostate
ˈprɒsteɪt
reinstate
ˌriːɪnˈsteɪt
restate
riːˈsteɪt
state
steɪt
substate
ˈsʌbˌsteɪt
superstate
ˈsuːpəˌsteɪt
testate
ˈtɛsteɪt
tristate
ˈtraɪˌsteɪt
upstate
ˈʌpˈsteɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MICROSTATE

microsomal
microsome
microspecies
microsphere
microspherical
microsporangia
microsporangium
microspore
microsporic
microsporocyte
microsporophyll
microsporous
microstomatous
microstomous
microstructural
microstructure
microsurgeon
microsurgery
microsurgical
microswitch

WORDS THAT END LIKE MICROSTATE

chief of state
city-state
crown estate
ground state
head of state
hesitate
housing estate
industrial estate
lie in state
minister of state
nation state
nation-state
police state
real estate
rogue state
secretary of state
solid-state
steady state
trading estate
tri-state
welfare state

Synonyms and antonyms of microstate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «microstate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MICROSTATE

Find out the translation of microstate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of microstate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «microstate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

微观
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

microestado
570 millions of speakers

English

microstate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

microstate
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

microstate
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

микросостояние
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

microstate
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

microstate
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

microscopique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Microstate
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Mikrozustand
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

マイクロステート
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

미세 상태
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Microstate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

microstate
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மைக்ரோநிலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मायक्रोस्टेट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mikro durum
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

microstato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

microstate
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Мікростан
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

microstare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μικροκατάστασης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

microstate
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

micro
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

microstate
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of microstate

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MICROSTATE»

The term «microstate» is normally little used and occupies the 139.100 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MICROSTATE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «microstate» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «microstate» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about microstate

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MICROSTATE»

Discover the use of microstate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to microstate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Secrets of the Seven Smallest States of Europe: Andorra, ...
This unique book examines the history, culture, and inner workings of the seven smallest independent countries in Europe. These are among the oldest states on the continent and, despite their diversity, they have much in common.
Thomas M. Eccardt, 2005
2
Five Dimensional Microstate Geometries
In chapter 3, we have introduced the large number of the bubbled geometries that are possible microstate geometries of the black hole/ring. The natural question to ask is what the configurations of the positions, charges and flux parameters ...
Chih-Wei Wang, 2007
3
Microstate Studies
INTRODUCTION Pearl Varlack Educators in the microstate have traditionally either through mimesis, extrapolation, or adaptation, accepted as givens the promulgations of writers concerned with large societies that are different in their own ...
‎1979
4
Foundations in Social Neuroscience
Overall, two-tailed P values are reported. Only microstates showing significant attitude- dependent differences were further analyzed. To assess the variance of microstate timing across subjects, microstate start and end times were determined ...
John T. Cacioppo, 2002
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inorganic chemestry
Free-ion terms are very important in the interpretation of the spectra of coordination compounds. The following examples show how to determine the values of L, ML, S, and Ms for a given term and how to prepare microstate tables from them.
6
Computational Methods in Quantum Chemistry
Hence, we can select out nine of the microstate possibilities of ML= (-1,0,1) in combination with Ms (-1,0,1) to represent the JP state There will remain only one microstate corresponding to ML =0 and Ms = 0. This is the single microstate of the  ...
Ahmed A. Hasanein, Myron Wyn Evans, 1996
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Investigations
Over time, the Earth system— or a larger one including the entire solar system or our galaxy or the local cluster of galaxies— flows from microstate to mi- crostate. By our arguments above and ignoring gravity — a grave mistake in itself ...
Stuart A. Kauffman Santa Fe Institute, 2000
8
Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology
The microstate of a system is determined by specifying the quantum numbers of each particle in the system. The total number of quantum numbers is the number of degrees of freedom. The macrostate of a system is determined by specifying ...
Russell K. Hobbie, Bradley J. Roth, 2007
9
Fundamentals of Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics
In such a case the number of possible configurations of the molecules is the minimum. (ii) Disordered or random distribution. In this case the number of possible configurations is the maximum. Microstate of a system. The microstate of a system ...
Bimalendu Narayan Roy, 2002
10
Numerical Solution of Markov Chains
3.2 Microstate Processes We can also define N different stochastic processes {x',, t = 0,1,2,...} by viewing the microstates within macrostate /, / = 1, 2, ..., N in isolation. When viewing the microstates in macrostate / in isolation, a transition leaving ...
William J. Stewart, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MICROSTATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term microstate is used in the context of the following news items.
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Welsh champion TNS looking to progress in UCL
Pyunik will travel to the microstate looking for an away goal to all but seal its place in the next round, something the club has not achieved since ... «SBS - The World Game, Jul 15»
2
Greece isn't the first country to have a debt referendum. Does …
Besides being a microstate of only 400,000 citizens (compared with Greece's 11 million), Iceland is not a European Union member state. «Washington Post, Jul 15»
3
SolarSuperState Ranking 2015: Liechtenstein leads the World in …
The Principality of Liechtenstein is a German-speaking microstate in Central Europe, bordered by Switzerland to the west and south and ... «solarserver.com, Jun 15»
4
If You Build Startup Row in the Desert, Will They Come?
It has been said of the microstate of Liechtenstein that it exists only if you're in it. Startup Row is the opposite. Banners proclaim it, the city touts it ... «Next City, Jun 15»
5
West Ham discover Europa League first qualifying round opponents
Slaven Bilic's Hammers will make the 1,640 mile round trip to the European microstate for the first leg on July 2 before the return leg at Upton ... «Daily Star, Jun 15»
6
Monaco Week in Shanghai
... in Shanghai, when recently asked by the Global Times to summarize in a few words the lifestyle of the exotic Mediterranean microstate. «Global Times, Jun 15»
7
High roller Paul Phua walks free from US court as gambling case …
In 2011, he was granted a diplomatic passport by the European microstate of San Marino as its ambassador to Montenegro. In June last year, ... «South China Morning Post, Jun 15»
8
Why Monaco remains in pole position for high-end buyers
Monaco has a reputation that very much precedes it: this microstate covers an area of just 2 sq km — similar in size to London's Hyde Park, ... «Financial Times, May 15»
9
Eurovision 2015 semi-final 2 RECAP: All the action as it happened …
Don't be concerned if you didn't actually realise the microstate was actually part of the Eurovision Song Contest because since their debut in ... «Mirror.co.uk, May 15»
10
The Guy Who Declared Himself King of “North Sudan” Now Wants to …
Heaton says he's also in touch with the leaders of Liberland, that recently proclaimed microstate I wrote about, located on a similarly unclaimed ... «Slate Magazine, May 15»

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