0 the act of keeping something the same or of preventing it from being damaged: --
She belongs to the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites
The president has said that the government is committed to the preservation (= protection) of the country's national interests.
The church is in a poor state of preservation (= has not been kept in good condition).
There is great public concern about some of the chemicals used in food preservation.
wood preservation
building preservation
1 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).
Several conditions are formulated that guarantee the preservation of properties like strong normalization and confluence for the systems with the extended reduction relations.
In the literature, works on revision generally operate within the context of consistency preservation.
The examples previously described show the continuous interest through the last five decades for conservation, preservation and identification of the electroacoustic domain.
The preservation of schwa in a converging phonological system.
His study demonstrates that this constitutes a politeness and face preservation strategy that builds social action and maintains social order.
It guarantees that a larger sample of sites, regardless of for instance their geomorphological setting or state of preservation, can be included in the analysis.
Prior to the 1950s, conservation groups relied on sympathetic federal agency officials to secure scenic areas for preservation and to limit development.
This approach has resulted in a quantumleap improvement in specimen preservation compared to the earlier negative-stain preparation of dry specimens.
