INTERSTATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interstate mean? 

• INTERSTATE (noun)
  The noun INTERSTATE has 1 sense:

1. one of the system of highways linking major cities in the 48 contiguous states of the United States

  Familiarity information: INTERSTATE used as a noun is very rare.

• INTERSTATE (adjective)
  The adjective INTERSTATE has 1 sense:

1. involving and relating to the mutual relations of states especially of the United States

  Familiarity information: INTERSTATE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERSTATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the system of highways linking major cities in the 48 contiguous states of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

interstate; interstate highway

Hypernyms ("interstate" is a kind of...):

highway; main road (a major road for any form of motor transport)

• INTERSTATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Involving and relating to the mutual relations of states especially of the United States

Context example:

interstate commerce

Antonym:

intrastate (relating to or existing within the boundaries of a state)

 Context examples 

All written, printed, or graphic matter accompanying an article at any time while such article is in interstate commerce or held for sale after shipment or delivery in interstate commerce.

(Labeling, NCI Thesaurus)

Long-haul trucks on interstate highways often drive at relatively constant speeds with little or no intersections which makes autonomous driving easier to achieve.

(Tesla to Test Self-driving Electric Trucks, VOA News)

It's on record, your position on interstate commerce regulation, on regulation of the railway trust and Standard Oil, on the conservation of the forests, on a thousand and one restrictive measures that are nothing else than socialistic.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Any person who causes a label to be applied to a device with the intent that the device will be introduced into interstate commerce without any intended subsequent replacement or modification of the label; and any person who causes the label of a device to be modified with the intent that the device will be introduced into interstate commerce without any subsequent replacement or modification of the label, except that the addition of the name of, and contact information for, a person who distributes the device, without making any other changes to the label, is not a modification for the purposes of determining whether a person is a labeler.

(Device Labeler, Food and Drug Administration)

The EUA is a statutory authority allowing the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to authorize the introduction into interstate commerce and the use of unapproved medical products or authorize unapproved uses of approved medical products intended for use in an actual or potential emergency, during an emergency declared under Section 564(b)(1) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act), as amended by the Project BioShield Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-276).

(Emergency Use Authorization, Food and Drug Administration)