Intermediate state may refer to:
Science
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chemical state
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Virtual state, a very short-lived, unobservable quantum state
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Meissner effect
In condensed-matter physics, the Meissner effect (or Meißner–Ochsenfeld effect) is the expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state when it is cooled below the critical temperature. Th ...
, the expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state
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Mesophase, is a state of matter between solid and liquid
Religion
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Intermediate state (Christianity), a person's existence between death and the universal resurrection, in some forms of Christianity
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Bardo, an intermediate state between death and rebirth in some schools of Buddhism
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Gandharva, in Buddhism, being in the intermediate state between death and rebirth
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Araf, an intermediate state between Heaven and Hell for those who are balanced in their good works and sins
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Barzakh, in Islam, a phase between an individual's death and their resurrection
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Purgatory
In Christianity, Purgatory (, borrowed into English language, English via Anglo-Norman language, Anglo-Norman and Old French) is a passing Intermediate state (Christianity), intermediate state after physical death for purifying or purging a soul ...
, an intermediate state after physical death for expiatory purification, in some Christian denominations and Islam
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Afterlife
The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's Stream of consciousness (psychology), stream of consciousness or Personal identity, identity continues to exist after the death of their ...
, or life after death, in various religious traditions and myths
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Last Judgment, or Day of Reckoning, Doomsday, or Day of Resurrection, in Abrahamic religions and Zoroastrianism
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Limbo
The unofficial term Limbo (, or , referring to the edge of Hell) is the afterlife condition in medieval Catholic theology, of those who die in original sin without being assigned to the Hell of the Damned. However, it has become the gene ...
, the afterlife condition of those who die in original sin without being assigned to hell, in Catholic theology
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Merit (Buddhism), a concept considered fundamental to Buddhist ethics
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Mesoscopic physics, a subdiscipline of condensed matter physics that deals with materials of an intermediate size
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Population inversion, in statistical mechanics
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Quantum superposition
Quantum superposition is a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics that states that linear combinations of solutions to the Schrödinger equation are also solutions of the Schrödinger equation. This follows from the fact that the Schrödi ...
, a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics.
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Undead
The undead are beings in mythology, legend, or fiction that are deceased but behave as if they were alive. A common example of an undead being is a cadaver, corpse reanimated by supernatural forces, by the application of either the deceased's o ...
, beings in mythology, legend, or fiction that are deceased but behave as if alive
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Vegetative state, a disorder of consciousness
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