Intermediate state

Intermediate state may refer to:

Science

an intermediate chemical state
Virtual state, a very short-lived, unobservable quantum state
Meissner effect, the expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state
Mesophase, is a state of matter between solid and liquid

Intermediate state (Christianity), a person's existence between death and the universal resurrection, in some forms of Christianity
Bardo, an intermediate state between death and rebirth in some schools of Buddhism
Gandharva, in Buddhism, being in the intermediate state between death and rebirth
Barzakh, in Islam, a phase between an individual's death and their resurrection
Purgatory, an intermediate state after physical death for expiatory purification, in some Christian denominations and Islam

Afterlife, or life after death, in various religious traditions and myths
Last Judgment, or Day of Reckoning, Doomsday, or Day of Resurrection, in Abrahamic religions and Zoroastrianism
Limbo, the afterlife condition of those who die in original sin without being assigned to hell, in Catholic theology
Merit (Buddhism), a concept considered fundamental to Buddhist ethics
Mesoscopic physics, a subdiscipline of condensed matter physics that deals with materials of an intermediate size
Population inversion, in statistical mechanics
Quantum superposition, a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics.
Undead, beings in mythology, legend, or fiction that are deceased but behave as if alive
Vegetative state, a disorder of consciousness

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