conservation
Pronunciation: /ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/
The English word “conservation” has 6 meanings listed here.
noun
- The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
- Wise use of natural resources.
- The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
- 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
- The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
- lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)
Etymology
From Old French. By surface analysis, conserve + -ation.
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More English words
- conservatard
- conservatarian
- conservate
- conservatee
- conservation biology
- conservation law
- conservation of energy
- conservation of mass
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