CONSERVATION

conservation

(noun) the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources

conservation

(noun) (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations

conservation, preservation

(noun) an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

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.

(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)

Anagrams

• conversation, nanovortices

Source: Wiktionary


Con`ser*va"tion, n. Etym: [L. conservatio: cf. F. conservation.]

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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