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con·ser·va·tion 
[kon-ser-vey-shuhn] Pronunciation Key
[kon-ser-vey-shuhn] Pronunciation Key –noun
| 1. | the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation: conservation of wildlife; conservation of human rights. |
| 2. | official supervision of rivers, forests, and other natural resources in order to preserve and protect them through prudent management. |
| 3. | a district, river, forest, etc., under such supervision. |
| 4. | the careful utilization of a natural resource in order to prevent depletion. |
| 5. | the restoration and preservation of works of art. |
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| con·ser·va·tion
(kŏn'sûr-vā'shən) Pronunciation Key
n.
con'ser·va'tion·al adj. |
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| conservation | |
noun | |
| 1. | an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change |
| 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 |
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The American Heritage Science Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| conservation
(kŏn'sûr-vā'shən) Pronunciation Key
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.
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The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Conservation
Con`ser*va"tion\, n. [L. conservatio: cf. F. conservation.] The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation. A step necessary for the conservation of Protestantism. --Hallam. A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. --Burke. Conservation of areas (Astron.), the principle that the radius vector drawn from a planet to the sun sweeps over equal areas in equal times. Conservation of energy, or Conservation of force (Mech.), 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. --Clerk Maxwell.
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