conservation
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old French. By surface analysis, conserve + -ation.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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 edit
Translations edit
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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Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin cōnservātiōnem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
conservation f (plural conservations)
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Further reading edit
- “conservation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.