"stateful" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From state + -ful. In the computing sense it is intended as an opposite for stateless.",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "2001, John Mueller, Special edition using SOAP:",
          "text": "CORBA and DCOM are both stateful protocols. A user establishes a connection with the server and that connection remains in place during the entire session.",
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        "That supports different states, reacting to the same input differently depending on the current state."
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        ]
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        "(computing) That supports different states, reacting to the same input differently depending on the current state."
      ],
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        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
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        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "computer: that supports different states",
          "word": "zustandsorientiert"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "computer: that supports different states",
          "word": "durumlu"
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          "ref": "c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act I, scene v:",
          "text": "[T]o haue a generall timerous reſpect, obſerue a man, a ſtatefull ſcilence in his preſence: […]",
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        "Full of state; stately."
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        "(obsolete) Full of state; stately."
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  "pos": "adj",
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        "That supports different states, reacting to the same input differently depending on the current state."
      ],
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        "(computing) That supports different states, reacting to the same input differently depending on the current state."
      ],
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          "text": "[T]o haue a generall timerous reſpect, obſerue a man, a ſtatefull ſcilence in his preſence: […]",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Full of state; stately."
      ],
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        "(obsolete) Full of state; stately."
      ],
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "computer: that supports different states",
      "word": "zustandsorientiert"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "computer: that supports different states",
      "word": "durumlu"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stateful"
}