Conservation

Quick meaning: Conservation is a noun meaning The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.

Meaning

The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.

More Meanings

1. Wise use of natural resources.
2. (biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
3. (culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
4. (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)
5. (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

Example Sentences

“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. …”

Word Forms

• conservations

Synonyms for conservation

Depending on context, synonyms include preservation, conservancy, conserving.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include preservation, conserving, conservancy, conservatory, conserved, preserving.

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