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conservation
 
Noun conservation has 3 senses
  1. conservation, preservation - an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change
    --1 is a kind of improvement, betterment, advance
    Derived form: verb conserve2
  2. conservation - the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources
    --2 is a kind of     preservation, saving
    --2 has particulars:
     conservancy; soil conservation; oil conservation; water conservation
    Derived form: verb conserve2
  3. conservation - (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations
    --3 is a kind of     principle
    --3 has particulars:
     conservation of charge, conservation of electricity; conservation of energy, law of conservation of energy, first law of thermodynamics; conservation of mass, conservation of matter, law of conservation of mass, law of conservation of matter; conservation of momentum; parity, conservation of parity, space-reflection symmetry, mirror symmetry
    Derived form: verb conserve1
consequtive conserctive conserivative consern conserted conservacion conservancy conservant conservation conservation of charge conservation of electricity conservation of energy conservation of mass conservation of matter conservation of momentum conservation of parity conservationist

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