"microstate" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: microstates [plural]
Etymology: From micro- + state. Etymology templates: {{af|en|micro-|state}} micro- + state Head templates: {{en-noun}} microstate (plural microstates)
  1. A country that has a very small population and land area. Translations (a very small country): دُوَيْلَة (duwayla) (Arabic), microestat [masculine] (Catalan), 微型國家 (Chinese Mandarin), 微型国家 (wēixíng guójiā) (Chinese Mandarin), ministát [masculine] (Czech), státeček [masculine] (Czech), mikrostat [common-gender] (Danish), dwergstaat (Dutch), ministaat (Dutch), kääpiövaltio (Finnish), Zwergstaat [masculine] (German), マイクロ (maikuro) (Japanese), ка́рликовое госуда́рство (kárlikovoje gosudárstvo) [neuter] (Russian), microestado [masculine] (Spanish), จุลรัฐ (jun-lá-rát) (Thai), mikrodevlet (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-microstate-en-noun-sjDDOUBR Disambiguation of 'a very small country': 98 2
  2. (physics) The specific detailed microscopic configuration of a system. Categories (topical): Physics, Systems theory Translations (microscopic configuration): microestat [masculine] (Catalan), 微觀狀態 (Chinese Mandarin), 微观状态 (wēiguān zhuàngtài) (Chinese Mandarin), mikrostav [masculine] (Czech), mikrotilstand [common-gender] (Danish), microtoestand [masculine] (Dutch), mikro-olosuhteet [plural] (Finnish), микросостоя́ние (mikrosostojánije) [neuter] (Russian), microestado [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-microstate-en-noun-05EJ3dhd Disambiguation of Systems theory: 10 90 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with micro-, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Thai translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 95 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with micro-: 22 78 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 9 91 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 6 94 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 95 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 6 94 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 8 92 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 7 93 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 8 92 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 7 93 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 4 96 Disambiguation of Terms with Thai translations: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 9 91 Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics Disambiguation of 'microscopic configuration': 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (topical): Government Derived forms: microstate continuum
Disambiguation of Government: 0 0

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (bb46d54 and 0c3c9f6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.