[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

conservation \con`serva"tion\, n. l. conservatio: cf. f.
   conservation.
   the act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping
   of a thing in a safe or entire state; preservation.
   1913 webster

         a step necessary for the conservation of protestantism.
                                                  --hallam.
   1913 webster

         a state without the means of some change is without the
         means of its conservation.               --burke.
   1913 webster

   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. --clerk maxwell.
      1913 webster
see also:
conservation of areas conservation of energy conservation of force 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

conservation of energy
     n : the fundamental principle of physics that the total energy
         of an isolated system is constant despite internal
         changes syn: law of conservation of energy, first law
         of thermodynamics
see also:
law of conservation of energy first law of thermodynamics 

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