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Any given dynamical (or evolving) system is in some state at any given time, the state it is in will change in time---the  state space  is the set of all possible states.

e.g.  body temperature   ( 1D )

e.g. Lorenz & Zeeman's dog  ( 2D )

e.g. fluid flow  ( infinite-D )