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Conservation   /kˌɑnsərvˈeɪʃən/   Listen
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Conservation  n.  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." "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."
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, or Conservation of force (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.






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"Conservation" Quotes from Famous Books



... general sentiment in saying that this opinion has become that of the vast majority of minds. The present finds few defenders, it is true; but the disgust with utopia is no less universal: and everybody understands that the truth lies in a formula which shall reconcile these two terms: CONSERVATION ...
— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon

... all-powerful rule of the same principle of evolution throughout the universe compels us to formulate a single supreme law—the all-embracing "Law of Substance," or the united laws of the constancy of matter and the conservation of energy. We should never have reached this supreme general conception if Charles Darwin—a "monistic philosopher" in the true sense of the word—had not prepared the way by his theory of descent by natural selection, and crowned the great work of his life by the ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others

... Conservation of the aforesaid Rights, We, the undersigned Powers, engaging to each other our Sacred Faith and ...
— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine

... intervening tasks, the main idea slightly drifting from time to time.... The purpose on setting out, was to relate the adventure of home-making in the country, with its incidents of masonry, child and rose culture, and shore-conservation. It was not to tell others how to build a house or plant a garden, or how to conduct one's life on a shore-acre or two. Not at this late day. I was impelled rather to relate how we found plenty with a little; how we entered upon a new dimension of health and length of days; and from ...
— Child and Country - A Book of the Younger Generation • Will Levington Comfort

... destruction of the sacred edifice. He dispatched, therefore, the learned Peter Martyr, so distinguished for his historical writings, as ambassador to the Soldan, by whom all ancient grievances between the two powers were satisfactorily adjusted, and arrangements made for the conservation of the holy sepulchre, and the protection of all Christian pilgrims ...
— The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II) • Washington Irving


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