An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
English-French-Persian

1) Physics: Of or pertaining to a law of → conservation.
2) Opposed to change and innovation and disposed to keep existing values.
3) Of or relating to a philosophy of → conservatism.
4) An adherent or advocate of political conservatism.

M.Fr. conservatif, from L.L. conservativus, from L. conservatus, p.p. of conservare, → conserve.

Pâyešmand, from pâyeš, → conservation, + -mand possession suffix, → -ist.

A → field of → force in which the → work done in taking a particle from one point to another is independent of the → path taken between them. Examples are → electrostatic field and → gravitational field.

→ conservative; → field.

A system in which there is no dissipation of energy so that the total energy remains unchanged with time.

→ conservative→ system.

The condition or quality of being → conservative.

→ conservative; → -ness.