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Conserved

Conserve \Con*serve"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conserved; p. pr. & vb. n. Conserving.] [F. conserver, L. conservare; con- + servare to keep, guard. See Serve.]

  1. To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect.

    The amity which . . . they meant to conserve and maintain with the emperor.
    --Strype.

  2. To prepare with sugar, etc., for the purpose of preservation, as fruits, etc.; to make a conserve of.

Wiktionary
conserved
  1. Of or relating to something to which conservation has been applied; saved from being wasted v

  2. (en-past of: conserve)

WordNet
conserved

adj. protected from harm or loss

Usage examples of "conserved".

It is natural to suppose that it is useful to have senses which notice these conserved entities.

Theoretically it would have been enough for one of your ancestors to have naturally sound teeth, provided his dominant characteristics were conserved in each generation.

In this robotic coma, his thoughts moved very slowly, and he conserved the few remaining mental explorations left to him.

He had assumed that this was his permanent destiny and that if he conserved the wealth of the planta­tion, it would pass into the hands of his nephews, who would live much as he was living.

He watched their pursuer turn back toward Earth on a course that salvaged momentum and conserved fuel.

They could reach their cliff city again, if they walked by night and conserved moisture.

But the big breakthrough came in 1905, when Einstein showed that mass and energy are equivalent, and that their total is the thing that is conserved, rather than either one.

For a while it looked as though it wasn't conserved in nuclear reactions.

But then workers in quantum theory found that an internal angular momentum had to be added to the picture for many particles—spin—and after that angular momentum became a fully conserved quantity.

The first is that the physical laws of the universe, as we already know them, admit some conserved quantity that we simply haven't recognized yet.

They proposed a specific physical reason for the absence of neutrinos, arguing by analogy to the conserved vector current theory of Feynman and Gell-Mann.

You have yours for physics and mathematics, determinants and momentum and conserved vector currents.

For example, it was widely believed that parity (which is symmetry upon reflection in a mirror) must be a conserved quantity, because the Universe should have no preference for left-handed sub-nuclear processes over right-handed ones.

Today, only a combination of parity, charge, and time-reversal is regarded as a fully conserved quantity.

Some weeks later, the plans of Morning call were modified, but by then Zack already had the moral obligation and legal to allow that Rachel conserved the paper it carries out.