conservation
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English
Etymology
From Old French. By surface analysis, conserve + -ation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Audio (Southern England): (file)
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:
- “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
- anticonservation
- anticonservationist
- conservational
- conservation biology
- conservationism
- conservationist
- conservation law
- conservation of energy
- conservation of mass
- cryoconservation
- geoconservation
- hyperconservation
- law of conservation of mass
- microconservation
- nonconservation
- proconservation
- reconservation
- soil conservation
- ultraconservation
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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Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cōnservātiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
conservation f (plural conservations)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “conservation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.