(US, Canada) One who favors a specific set of social policies, generally including opposition to birth control, abortion rights, euthanasia, same-sex marriage, and sexual permissiveness, often based on a particular reading of Christian values.

One who favors a balanced budget, preferring spending cuts or tax increases to borrowing, and wants to decrease government size, and promote a free market.

(politics) Alternative form of Conservative Party

A DNA or protein sequence with a high degree of sequence identity to other sequences in that species, or in others.

(medicine) A treatment that does not include any operation or intervention.

(physics, chemistry) A conservation law of classical physics that states that the total mass of a closed system remains constant regardless of the chemical or physical changes that take place within it.

(biology) Legal aspects of protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources.

(physics, chemistry) Synonym of conservation of mass

(narratology, fiction, informal, humorous) The ability of one or few people to win fights against many opponents.

(Canada, politics) a political party in Canada with a right of centre ideology, which succeed the old Conservative Party of Canada, Liberal-Conservative Party of Canada, Blue Party and absorbed the Progressive Party of Canada. It was itself succeeded by the new Conservative Party of Canada.