conservation
noun/ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/
Etymology From Old French. By surface analysis, conserve + -ation.
The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
Wise use of natural resources.
- “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. …”1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
Biology, Natural sciences The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
Biology, Natural sciences 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
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, 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, neuroconservation, nonconservation, proconservation, reconservation, soil conservation, ultraconservation