It was a state distinct from the process.
The human brain is in a distinct physiological state while dreaming, and we dream rather often.
Far from reflecting continuously varying values, digital information is based on just two distinct states.
Those four distinct states yield the equivalent of two bits of data.
Water can be said to have several distinct solid states.
These state transition diagrams use distinct states to define system behavior and changes.
Soviet domination remains, but over an increasingly diverse group of distinct states.
Since U is nontrivial, at least one pair of and must represent distinct states.
A bit can be stored by a digital device or other physical system that exists in either of two possible distinct states.
A single material may have several distinct solid states capable of forming separate phases.