conservation

Meaning

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)

Concepts

conservation

preservation

maintenance

protection

retention

storage

conservancy

keep

guarding

upkeep

reservation

keeping

sustenance

environmentalism

charge

custody

duty period

guard

marshal

warden

warder

watchman

integrity

nourishment

care

guardianship

safety

security

crop storage

storing

preserving

sustentation

aegis

auspices

defence

defense

patronage

safeguard

shield

sponsorship

subsistence

support

hold

maintain

staticize

allocate

continue to have

preserve

reserve

imperishability

repositing

retentivity

reposition

canning

saving

savings

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/

Etymology

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

Sentences

They are sometimes used for conservation grazing .