conservation

English

Etymology

From Old French. By surface analysis, conserve +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

conservation (countable and uncountable, plural conservations)

1. The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
2. Wise use of natural resources.
   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎^[1]:

     “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. …”

3. (biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
4. (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
5. (culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
6. (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)

Derived terms

• anticonservation
• anticonservationist
• conservational
• conservation biology
• conservationism
• conservationist
• conservation law
• conservation of energy
• conservation of mass
• cryoconservation
• geoconservation
• hyperconservation
• law of conservation of mass
• microconservation
• nonconservation
• proconservation
• reconservation
• soil conservation
• ultraconservation

 

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
• Greek: διατήρηση (el) f (diatírisi)
• 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)

the discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources

• Armenian: բնապահպանություն (hy) (bnapahpanutʻyun)
• German: Naturschutz (de) m, Umweltschutz (de) m, Artenschutz (de) m, Ressourcenschutz m
• Hungarian: természetvédelem (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: naturvern n

  Nynorsk: naturvern n

• Russian: охра́на приро́ды (oxrána priródy)
• Tagalog: satinggal

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)

(biology) gene sequences or structures that are not changed in evolution

• French: conservation (fr)
• Italian: conservazione (it)
• Portuguese: conservação (pt)
• Spanish: conservación (es)

Anagrams

• conversation, nanovortices

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnservātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.sɛʁ.va.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

conservation f (plural conservations)

1. conservation

Derived terms

• loi de conservation
• loi de conservation de l’énergie

Further reading

• “conservation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• conversation