conservation

con·ser·va·tion  (knsûr-vshn)

n.

1. The act or process of conserving.

2.

a. Preservation or restoration from loss, damage, or neglect: manuscripts saved from deterioration under the program of library conservation.

b. The protection, preservation, management, or restoration of wildlife and of natural resources such as forests, soil, and water.

3. The maintenance of a physical quantity, such as energy or mass, during a physical or chemical change.

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conser·vation·al adj.

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conservation

Noun

1. protection and careful management of the environment and natural resources

2. protection from change, loss, or injury

3. Physics the principle that the quantity of a specified aspect of a system, such as momentum or charge, remains constant

conservationist n

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conservation  (knsûr-vshn)

The protection, preservation, management, or restoration of natural environments and the ecological communities that inhabit them. Conservation is generally held to include the management of human use of natural resources for current public benefit and sustainable social and economic utilization.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	conservation - an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change preservation betterment, improvement, advance - a change for the better; progress in development
	2.	conservation - the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources preservation, saving - the activity of protecting something from loss or danger conservancy - the official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc. soil conservation - protection of soil against erosion or deterioration oil conservation - the conservation of petroleum resources water conservation - the conservation of water resources
	3.	conservation - (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations principle - a basic truth or law or assumption; "the principles of democracy" natural philosophy, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions; "his favorite subject was physics" conservation of charge, conservation of electricity - the principle that the total electric charge of a system remains constant despite changes inside the system conservation of energy, first law of thermodynamics, law of conservation of energy - the fundamental principle of physics that the total energy of an isolated system is constant despite internal changes conservation of mass, conservation of matter, law of conservation of mass, law of conservation of matter - a fundamental principle of classical physics that matter cannot be created or destroyed in an isolated system conservation of momentum - the principle that the total linear momentum in a closed system is constant and is not affected by processes occurring inside the system conservation of parity, mirror symmetry, space-reflection symmetry, parity - (physics) parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system

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conservation

noun 1. preservation, saving, protection, maintenance, custody, safeguarding, upkeep, guardianship, safekeeping

2. economy, saving, thrift, husbandry, careful management, thriftiness

Translations

conservation [kɔnsəˈveɪʃən] n → conservación f [of nature] → conservación, protección f

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conservation [kɔnsəˈveɪʃən] n → préservation f, protection f;

(also: nature conservation) → défense f de l'environnement;

energy conservation → économies fpl d'énergie

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conservation [kɔnsəˈveɪʃən] n → Erhaltung f, Schutz m;

(of energy) → Sparen nt;

(also: nature conservation) → Umweltschutz m;

(of paintings, books) → Erhaltung f, Konservierung f;

energy conservation → Energieeinsparung f

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conservation [kɔnsəˈveɪʃən] n → conservazione f (also: nature conservation) → tutela dell'ambiente;

energy conservation → risparmio energetico

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conservation, conservatism