Dictionary Definition
conservation
Noun
1 an occurrence of improvement by virtue of
preventing loss or injury or other change [syn: preservation]
2 the preservation and careful management of the
environment and of natural resources
3 (physics) the maintenance of a certain
quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical
transformations
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˌkɑnsə(r)ˈveɪʃǝn/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Noun
- The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
- A wise use of natural resources.
Translations
The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting
A wise use of natural resources
- Finnish: ympäristönsuojelu, luonnonsuojelu
- Japanese: 節約 (setsuyaku)
Extensive Definition
Conservation may refer to:
- Conservation movement, a movement seeking to protect plants, animals and their habitats
- Conservation ethic, an ethic of resource use, allocation, exploitation, and protection
- Energy conservation, the reduction of non-renewable energy consumption
- Habitat conservation
- Water conservation
- Wildlife management, multidisciplinary practices, including conservation of species and their habitats
- Conservation authority
- Marine conservation, the protection and preservation of ecosystems in oceans and seas
- Soil conservation
- Art conservation, the profession devoted to the preservation of cultural property
- Photograph conservation
- Architectural conservation, immovable object conservation
- Conservation biology, the science of the protection and management of biodiversity
- Conservation (botany), a procedure for nomenclature
- Conservation (genetics), related to homologous proteins amongst various phyla
- Conservation laws, a set of laws in physics
- Conservation (psychology), learning development of logical thinking, according to Jean Piaget
- Food conservation
See also
- :Category:Conservation for topics relation to conservation of natural resources
- Environmentalism
- List of conservation topics
- Agricultural conservation easement
conservation in Czech: Konzervace
conservation in Danish: Fredning
conservation in French: Conservation
conservation in Korean: 보존
conservation in Dutch: Conservering
conservation in Vietnamese: Bảo tồn
conservation in Turkish:
Konservasyon
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
attention, care, cold storage, conservancy, conservationism,
control, custody, dead storage, directing, dry storage,
economy, environmental
conservation, forest conservation, forest management, governing, guardianship, husbandry, keeping, maintenance, management, managing, preserval, preservation, protection, safeguarding, safekeeping, salvage, salvation, saving, shelf-room, soil
conservation, storage,
storage space, stowage,
stream conservation, supervising, supervision, support, sustentation, upkeep, warehousing, water
conservation, wetlands conservation, wildlife
conservation