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)
“Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and contrary to men’s preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men’s wills such as men would have them.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)
“Is not our role to stand for the one thing which means our own salvation here but with which it will also be possible to save the world, and with which Europe will be able to save itself, namely the preservation of the white man and his state?”
—Hendrik Verwoerd (1901–1966)