conservation
English
Etymology
From Old French
Pronunciation
Noun
conservation (countable and uncountable, plural conservations)
- The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
- Wise use of natural resources.
- 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad[1]:
- “My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up. […] You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. …”
- (biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
- (biology) Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
- (culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
- (physics) lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)
Derived terms
Translations
The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting
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the discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
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A wise use of natural resources
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(biology) gene sequences or structures that are not changed in evolution
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French
Etymology
From Latin conservatio.
Pronunciation
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Noun
conservation f (plural conservations)
Further reading
- “conservation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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