Free State Definition
noun
Any state of the U.S. in which slavery was forbidden before the Civil War.
Webster's New World
An approximate synonym for republic or commonwealth, as with the former Orange Free State, and especially as used for the current United Kingdom to refer to the Commonwealth period under Cromwell.
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A political entity whose political status is less than that of a fully sovereign nation-state, as with the former Congo Free State and the former Irish Free State.
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An independent or autonomous political entity whose formal status and relationship to other states is undefined.
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(engineering) A condition of not being supported or constrained by outside forces.
The steel ring is required by the engineering drawing to have roundness within .25mm TIR while in the free state. Its diameters may be measured in the constrained state while the part is still chucked or fixtured.
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Free State
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free-statesOrigin of Free State
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Probably a calque from German Freistaat
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