Look up: conservation

1. Conservation
   Having received an object, the conservator's task usually includes cleaning, documentation and analysis, and finally, stabilisation. Wood and organic material can be stabilised using freeze-drying or PEG. Metal can sometimes be treated with electrolysis. More info.
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2. Conservation
   Preserving and renewing, when possible, human and natural resources. The use, protection, and improvement of natural resources according to principles that will ensure their highest economic or social benefits.
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3. Conservation
   When a quantity (e.g. electric charge, energy, or momentum) is conserved, it is the same after a reaction between particles as it was before.
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4. Conservation
   The protection of an area, or particular element within an area, accepting the dynamic nature of the environment and therefore allowing change.
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5. Conservation
   preservation of the natural environment
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6. Conservation
   The management of a dynamic ecosystem in a sustainable way.
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7. Conservation
   The management of a dynamic ecosystem in a sustainable way.
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8. conservation
   [n] - an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change 2. [n] - (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations 3. [n] - the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources
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9. Conservation
   recognises that natural communities of plants and animals are not static and it involves preventing any development that would alter or destroy natural habitat but not interfering unduly with ecological changes that occur naturally
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10. Conservation
    See also PRESERVATION (443), REPAIR (478), RESTORATION (485) The physical and chemical stabilisation and treatment of materials, including the restoration of rare and valuable objects
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11. conservation
    the act of keeping entire, of protecting, preserving and improving with undertones of permanence and saving from waste (in quantity); and deterioration (in quality); also restoration to original state and improvement of what has been wasted or deteriorated Category: Environment • a serie...
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12. Conservation
    Work carried out to with the aim of maintaining or restoring the important features of a bridge, in particular the visible parts of its structure.
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13. Conservation
    The management of human use of the biosphere so that it may yield the greatest sustainable benefit to current generations while maintaining its potential to meet the needs and aspirations of future generations: Thus conservation is positive, embracing preservation, maintenance, sustainable utilisati...
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14. Conservation
    The principles and practice of the science of preventing species extinctions.
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15. Conservation
    Con`ser·va'tion noun [ Latin conservatio : confer French conservation .] 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...
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16. conservation
    Efficiency of energy use, production, transmission, or distribution that results in a decrease of energy consumption while providing the same level of service. ... (05 Dec 1998) ...
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17. conservation
    preservation noun an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change
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18. conservation
    noun the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources
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19. conservation
    noun (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations
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20. conservation
    the protection of a natural resource, usually by planned management, to prevent its depletion or destruction
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21. Conservation
    • (n.) The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
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22. conservation
    (from the article `human behaviour`) ...but thin sausage, the five-year-old will tend to say that the untouched sphere has more clay in it than the sausage-shaped object does. A ... ...learns to focus on single perceptual dimensions, such as colour and size. The third, the concrete-operational period, ranges from about age 7 to ... [...
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23. conservation
    study of the loss of Earth`s biological diversity and the ways this loss can be prevented. Biological diversity, or biodiversity, is the variety of ... [39 related articles]
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24. conservation
    The planning and management of resources so that we have continued access to these resources while maintaining their quality.
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25. conservation
    The sustainable use of forest resources in a manner that does not degrade the collective resource values of a region over the long term
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