Noun
conservation (countable and uncountable, plural conservations)
- The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
- Wise use of natural resources.
1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:“My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up. […] You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. …”
- (biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
- (biology) 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
- (culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
- (physics) lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)
Translations
The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting
- Armenian: պահպանում (hy) (pahpanum), կոնսերվացում (hy) (konservacʻum)
- Bulgarian: опазване (bg) n (opazvane), съхраняване (bg) n (sǎhranjavane), консервация f (konservacija)
- Catalan: conservació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 保存 (zh) (bǎocún)
- Czech: zachování n, konzervace
- Danish: bevaring c
- Dutch: bewaren (nl) n, conserveren (nl) n
- Esperanto: konservado
- Finnish: suojelu (fi), säilytys (fi), säilyttäminen (fi)
- French: préservation (fr) f
- German: Erhaltung (de) f, Konservierung (de) f, Bewahrung (de) f, Erhalt (de) m, Musealisierung f
- Hebrew: שימור m (shimur) (preservation)
- Hungarian: megőrzés (hu)
- Indonesian: konservasi (id)
- Japanese: 保存 (ja) (ほぞん, hozon)
- Korean: 보존 (ko) (bojon)
- Lao: ການອະນຸລັກ (kān ʼa nu lak)
- Malay: pemuliharaan
- Malayalam: സംരക്ഷണം (ml) (saṁrakṣaṇaṁ)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bevaring m or f
- Nynorsk: bevaring f
- Polish: konserwacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: conservação (pt) f
- Romanian: conservare (ro)
- Russian: сохране́ние (ru) (soxranénije), консерва́ция (ru) f (konservácija)
- Semai: puleh perei
- Spanish: conservación (es) f
- Swedish: bevarande (sv) n
- Tagalog: satinggal
- Ukrainian: збере́ження n (zberéžennja), консерва́ція f (konservácija)
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the discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
A wise use of natural resources
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 保護/保护 (zh) (bǎohù)
- Dutch: natuurbescherming (nl)
- Finnish: ympäristönsuojelu (fi), luonnonsuojelu (fi)
- French: défense (fr) f, préservation (fr) f
- German: Schutz (de) m, Umweltschutz (de), Unterschutzstellung f, Bewahrung (de) f, Erhalt (de) m, Erhaltung (de) f, Einsparung (de) f, Schonung (de) f, Ressourcenschonung f
- Japanese: 節約 (ja) (せつやく, setsuyaku), 保護 (ja) (ほご, hogo)
- Romanian: prezervare (ro) f, apărare (ro) f
- Russian: сохране́ние (ru) n (soxranénije), охра́на (ru) f (oxrána), защи́та (ru) f (zaščíta)
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(biology) gene sequences or structures that are not changed in evolution