Conservation

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  • noun. The act or process of conserving.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Preservation or restoration from loss, damage, or neglect.
  • noun. The protection, preservation, management, or restoration of wildlife and of natural resources such as forests, soil, and water.
  • noun. The maintenance of a physical quantity, such as energy or mass, during a physical or chemical change.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In England, a court or board of commissioners having jurisdiction over a port (as London, Liverpool, etc.) or of a river (as the Thames, the Mersey, etc.), and charged with the regulation as well as the conservation of its navigation, fisheries, etc.
  • noun. The act of conserving,guarding, or keeping with care; preservation from loss, decay, injury, or violation; the keeping of a thing in a safe or entire state.
  • noun. Persistence; perdurance; permanence.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
  • noun. the principle that the radius vector drawn from a planet to the sun sweeps over equal areas in equal times.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. undefined
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
  • noun. A wise use of natural resources.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations
  • noun. an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change
  • noun. the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources
    • Word Usage
    "The term conservation was first applied to water resources."
    Equivalent
    conservation of force  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    advance  betterment  improvement  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsatian  Americanization  Appalachian  Balkanization  Christianization  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    agriculture  allocation  cleanliness  colonization  distribution  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    attention  care  cold storage  conservancy  conservationism  
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