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Conservation

//ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən// noun

Noun

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The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation. countable, uncountable
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the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources wordnet
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Wise use of natural resources. countable, uncountable
"“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. …”"
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(physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations wordnet
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The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources countable, uncountable

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an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change wordnet
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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 countable, uncountable
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The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts countable, uncountable
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lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries) countable, uncountable

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

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