Conservation

n. guarding, preservation, protection from decay and destruction

Conservation may refer to: Politics and policy 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 Environmentalism    Culture Art conservation, the profession devoted to the preservation of cultural property Architectural conservation, immovable object conservation Archaeological site conservation Science 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 physical laws Conservation (psychology), learning development of logical thinking, according to Jean Piaget
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Noun
1. an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change
(synonym) preservation
(hypernym) improvement, betterment, advance
(derivation) conserve, preserve, maintain, keep up
2. the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources
(hypernym) preservation, saving
(hyponym) conservancy
(derivation) conserve, preserve, maintain, keep up
3. (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations
(hypernym) principle
(hyponym) conservation of charge, conservation of electricity
(derivation) conserve
(classification) physics, physical science, natural philosophy

n. conservatism, preservation; retention

(n.)
The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.