Conservation
[kɒnsə'veɪʃ(ə)n] or [,kɑnsɚ'veʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources.
(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.
Edited by Carlos--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Preservation.
Typist: Pearl
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Preservation, keeping, protection, guardianship, maintenance, stabilisation,perpetuation
ANT:Neglect, exposure, abrogation, destruction, abolition
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Examples
- They had seen the Roosevelt influence adding to the resources of life--irrigation, and waterways, conservation, the Panama Canal, the country life movement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The conservation of the forest means the conservation of our waterways, whether these be used for transportation or as sources of drinking water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Everything he has done has been aimed at the conservation of energy, the contraction of space, the intensification of culture. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Conservation had the virtue of arising out of a provident statesmanship, but its problems were largely technical. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- To Plato experience meant habituation, or the conservation of the net product of a lot of past chance trials. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It does no t really contradict, as some thought might be the case, the principle of the conservation of energy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Correct education could not come into existence until an ideal state existed, and after that education would be devoted simply to its conservation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- One important and characteristic feature of the present age is the conservation of waste in perishable foodstuffs. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The principle just stated embodies one of the fundamental laws of science, called the law of the _conservation of matter_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Nature has wisely endowed man with nerves of sensation as danger signals for the conservation of life. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This comes nearer to overthrowing the doctrine of the conservation of energy, said he, than anything I ever saw. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- What Roosevelt did in the conservation movement was typical of the statesman's work. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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