Definitions for: Conservation


[n] the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources
[n] (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations
[n] an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change



Webster (1913) Definition: Con`ser*va"tion, n. [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.

Synonyms: preservation

See Also: advance, betterment, conservancy, conservation of charge, conservation of electricity, conservation of energy, conservation of mass, conservation of matter, conservation of momentum, conservation of parity, first law of thermodynamics, improvement, law of conservation of energy, law of conservation of mass, law of conservation of matter, mirror symmetry, oil conservation, parity, preservation, principle, saving, soil conservation, space-reflection symmetry, water conservation

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