Preservation

Preservation may refer to:

  • Heritage preservation:
    • Historic preservation, of buildings, monuments, etc.
    • Preservation (library and archival science), of books, recordings, etc.
    • Digital preservation, of digitized and born-digital information
    • Conservation (ethic), of the natural environment
    • Conservation-restoration, of artworks
  • Preservative, chemical to hinder deterioration of food, wood, etc.
    • Food preservation
  • Self-preservation, part of an animal's fundamental instinct which demands that the organism survive
  • Case preservation, when computer storage preserves the distinction between upper and lower case
  • Preservation: Acts 1 & 2, albums by The Kinks
  • Preservation Hall, jazz venue in New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Preservation Island Group, Tasmania, Australia:
    • Preservation Island
    • Preservation Islets
  • Assurance (theology), an aspect of Salvation
  • Preservation (magazine), published by the National Trust for Historic Preservation

In safety and technology:

  • Dust resistant
  • Fire resistant
  • Rot-proof
  • Rustproof
  • Thermal resistant
  • Impact resistant
  • Waterproof

Famous quotes containing the word preservation:

    “If there is ANY THING which it is the duty of the WHOLE PEOPLE to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “The reason why men enter into society, is the preservation of their property; and the end why they choose and authorize a legislative, is, that there may be laws made, and rules set, as guards and fences to the properties of all the members of the society: to limit the power, and moderate the dominion, of every part and member of the society.”
    —John Locke (1632–1704)

    “The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation and security. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.”
    —Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)