English Online Dictionary. What means conservation? What does conservation mean?
English
Etymology
From Old French. By surface analysis, conserve + -ation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
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)
Derived terms
Translations
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cōnservātiōnem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.sɛʁ.va.sjɔ̃/
Noun
conservation f (plural conservations)
- conservation
Derived terms
- loi de conservation
- loi de conservation de l'énergie
Further reading
- “conservation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- conversation