conservation

Meaning

Noun

• The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
• Wise use of natural resources.
• The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
• Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
• The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
• lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)

Origin

• From Old French.
• Surface analysis conserve + -ation