conservation law

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noun Physics, Chemistry.

any law stating that some quantity or property remains constant during and after an interaction or process, as conservation of charge or conservation of linear momentum.

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Origin of conservation law

First recorded in 1945–50

Words nearby conservation law

conservation, conservation biology, conservation dependent, conservation grade, conservationist, conservation law, conservation of angular momentum, conservation of baryon number, conservation of charge, conservation of energy, conservation of lepton number

How to use conservation law in a sentence

This is said to be the first conservation law passed in America.
The School Book of Forestry|Charles Lathrop Pack
How inadequate a game conservation law of closed season, without regard to the breeding habits of the animal concerned!
Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools|James Daley McDonald

Scientific definitions for conservation law

conservation law

Any of various principles, such as the conservation of charge and the conservation of energy, that require some measurable property of a closed system to remain constant as the system changes. Conservation laws can be directly related to principles of symmetry. See also invariance Noether's theorem.