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preservation | American Dictionary

preservation
noun[ U ]
us/ˌprez·ərˈveɪ·ʃən/
the act of keeping something as it is, esp. in order to prevent it from decaying or to protect it from being damaged or destroyed:
Janet is very interested in historic preservation (= protecting places of historic importance).

preservationist

noun[ C ]us/ˌprez·ərˈveɪ·ʃə·nɪst/
Preservationists were outraged at the proposal to tear down a historic theater.

Examples of preservation

preservation
Considering the high grade of preservation, the mineral formation process was probably a relatively quick event.
It is also the case that historic preservation virtually never operates this way either.
Patients in "minimally conscious states" are awake but have only partial preservation of awareness and responsiveness.
He had described at length how local government stimulated the right kinds of attitudes and customs for the preservation of an orderly liberty.
The new plant remains discovered by us are in a better, but somewhat unusual, state of preservation (as described above).
Preservation of natural areas necessarily implies that local populations will have their use of these resources restricted.
Preservation of subcoalgebras by pre-images is central here, so we give an elementary proof.
This approach has resulted in a quantumleap improvement in specimen preservation compared to the earlier negative-stain preparation of dry specimens.
Prior to the 1950s, conservation groups relied on sympathetic federal agency officials to secure scenic areas for preservation and to limit development.
His study demonstrates that this constitutes a politeness and face preservation strategy that builds social action and maintains social order.
The preservation of schwa in a converging phonological system.
The examples previously described show the continuous interest through the last five decades for conservation, preservation and identification of the electroacoustic domain.
In the literature, works on revision generally operate within the context of consistency preservation.
Several conditions are formulated that guarantee the preservation of properties like strong normalization and confluence for the systems with the extended reduction relations.
These include the fossilization process, preservation and cladistics, in addition to (arguably) more prosaic topics such as fieldwork, collecting, preparation and curation.
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digital preservation
One aspect of records management designed specifically for sustaining these digitized records and documenting digital collection materials is known as digital preservation.
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