English Explanatory Dictionary

conservation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.
  3. The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
  4. 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. The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
  6. lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)

Pronunciation

/ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-conservation.wav

Word forms

conservation conservations

Etymology

From Old French. By surface analysis, conserve + -ation.

Derived words

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
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