Intermediate state explained

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

Religion

• 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
• Araf, an intermediate state between Heaven and Hell for those who are balanced in their good works and sins
• 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

See also

• 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