Zustand
- A German word that translates to 'state' or 'condition' in English, referring to the particular condition that someone or something is in at a specific time. nounThe machine was in a poor Zustand after years of neglect.His emotional Zustand was fragile after the incident.
- In a philosophical or scientific context, it can refer to the state of a system or entity, describing its properties or status at a particular moment. nounThe physicist explained the Zustand of the gas under different temperatures.In quantum mechanics, the Zustand of a particle can be described by its wave function.