Definitions
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- noun A failure to
conserve . - noun physics A failure to abide by a
conservation law .
Etymologies
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non- + conservation
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Examples
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The electroweak theories of Weinberg and Salam predicted levels of nonconservation that looked extremely hard to measure.
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They claim that this nonconservation is actually predicted by a loophole in the standard model, which may be true, but it's never actually been observed -- if anyone observed such a violation experimentally, they'd definitely get the Nobel prize.
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Given this new perspective, we have to reconceptualize the nature of the injustice of conquest – it’s not the displacement of conservation by nonconservation, but displacement of one civilization by another.
Cultural Environmentalism at 10: Madhavi Sunder Rebecca Tushnet 2006
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