Conservation vs Consumption - What's the difference?
conservation | consumption |
The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
Wise use of natural resources.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 (biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
(biology) Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
(culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
(physics) lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)
The act of consuming something.
The amount consumed.
(pathology) The wasting-away of the human body through disease.
(senseid)(pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis.
As nouns the difference between conservation and consumption
is that conservation is the act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation while consumption is the act of consuming something.conservation
English
(wikipedia conservation)Noun
citation, passage=“My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.
Derived terms
* anticonservation * anticonservationist * conservationalAnagrams
* ----consumption
English
Noun
(-)- The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
- gross national consumption