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quellestate

Quellestate is a term found primarily in German-language technical literature to denote the source or origin state of a system, process, or data object. In English-language contexts the term is uncommon; standard equivalents include initial state, origin state, or source state. The orthography quellestate is not a standard German compound; proper German forms would be Quellzustand or Quellzustände, and literal translations may vary by discipline.

Usage varies by field. In control theory, the quellestate describes the starting condition from which a model

Examples: In a state-transition diagram, the quellestate is the starting node from which transitions emanate; in

Etymology and scope: the term blends German quell (source) and Zustand (state). The usage is episodic and

is
simulated
or
a
control
algorithm
operates.
In
data
processing
and
software
engineering,
it
may
denote
the
pre-processing
state
of
data
in
a
pipeline
or
the
starting
state
of
a
finite-state
machine
before
transitions.
a
data
pipeline,
it
can
refer
to
the
raw
input
state
before
cleaning
or
transformation.
mostly
confined
to
bilingual
or
German-language
texts.
When
writing
for
an
English-speaking
audience,
prefer
initial
state
or
source
state
and
reserve
quellestate
for
contexts
where
the
author
explicitly
uses
the
term.
See
also
initial
state,
source
state,
state
machine,
and
origin
state.