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conservation.

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

12 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/
  1. The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.

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  2. Wise use of natural resources.

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

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  4. 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

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  5. The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts

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  6. lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)

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Where this word comes from

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

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