0 past simple and past participle of conserve
1 to keep and protect something from damage, change, or waste:
For genes that are evolutionarily more conserved, the use of the rice genome seems to be more promising.
There was no conserved drug resistance profile among the epidemic strains.
Equations (12)-(15) represent the important conserved quantities of mass, momentum, the y component of the electric field and entropy.
However, a considerable fraction corresponds to evolutionary conserved sequences of unknown function.
If the baryon number is conserved, then only a small fraction of the energy content of matter can be extracted.
What would be conserved if ' 'the tape were played twice ' '?
The synthesis of single-domain magnetite crystals by numerous species raises the possibility that similar, conserved genes may control these biomineralization processes.
Clear and well-defined fringes indicate that a stable phase relationship is conserved across all the generated visible spectrum.