0 the act of keeping something the same or of preventing it from being damaged:
building preservation
wood preservation
There is great public concern about some of the chemicals used in food preservation.
The church is in a poor state of preservation (= has not been kept in good condition).
The president has said that the government is committed to the preservation (= protection) of the country's national interests.
She belongs to the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites
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).
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.
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