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Webster 1913 Edition

Conservation

Conˊser-va′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
conservatio
: cf. F.
conservation
.]
The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
A step necessary for the
conservation
of Protestantism.
Hallam.
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its
conservation
.
Burke.
Conservation of areas
(Astron.)
,
the principle that the radius vector drawn from a planet to the sun sweeps over equal areas in equal times.
–
Conservation of energy
, or
Conservation of force
(Mech.)
,
the principle that the total energy of any material system is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any action between the parts of the system, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible.
Clerk Maxwell.

Webster 1828 Edition

Conservation

CONSERVATION

,
Noun.
[L. See Conserve.] The act of preserving, guarding or protecting; preservation from loss, decay, injury, or violation; the keeping of a thing in a safe or entire state; as the conservation of bodies from perishing; the conservation of the peace of society; the conservation of privileges.

Definition 2024

conservation

conservation

English

Noun

conservation ‎(countable and uncountable, plural conservations)

  1. The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
  2. Wise use of natural resources.
    • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
      “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. …”
  3. (biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
  4. (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
  5. (culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
  6. (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)

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French

Etymology

From Latin conservatio.

Noun

conservation f ‎(plural conservations)

  1. conservation

Anagrams

Etymology

From Old French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌkɑnsə(r)ˈveɪʃən/
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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