Conservation

n.

1.

The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation. A step necessary for the conservation of Protestantism. - Hallam. A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. - Burke. Conservation of areas (Astron.) the principle that the radius vector drawn from a planet to the sun sweeps over equal areas in equal times. Conservation of energy (Mech.) the principle that the total energy of any material system is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any action between the parts of the system, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible. - Clerk Maxwell.

Noun	1.	conservation - an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change Synonyms: preservation
	2.	conservation - the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources
	3.	conservation - (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations

attention, care, cold storage, conservancy, conservationism, control, custody, dead storage, directing, dry storage, economy, environmental conservation, forest conservation, forest management, governing, guardianship, husbandry, keeping, maintenance, management, managing, preserval, preservation, protection, safeguarding, safekeeping, salvage, salvation, saving, shelf-room, soil conservation, storage, storage space, stowage, stream conservation, supervising, supervision, support, sustentation, upkeep, warehousing, water conservation, wetlands conservation, wildlife conservation