what is meant by preservative
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Preservative
substance /ˈsʌbst(ə)ns /
▸ noun
1 a particular kind of matter with uniform properties:
a steel tube coated with a waxy substance.
▪ an intoxicating, stimulating, or narcotic chemical or drug, especially an illegal one:
he was suspended for using a banned substance
[as modifier] substance abuse.
2 the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists and which has a tangible, solid presence:
proteins compose much of the actual substance of the body.
▪ the most important or essential part of something; the real or essential meaning:
the substance of the Maastricht Treaty.
▪ the subject matter of a text, speech, or work of art, especially as contrasted with the form or style in which it is presented:
the substance of his book was the history of allegorical love literature
[mass noun] the movie is a triumph of style over substance.
3 [mass noun] the quality of being important, valid, or significant:
he had yet to accomplish anything of substance.
▪ the quality of having a solid basis in reality or fact:
the claim has no substance.
▪ the quality of being dependable or stable:
some were inclined to knock her for her lack of substance.
▪ wealth and possessions:
a woman of substance.
4 [mass noun] Philosophy the essential nature underlying phenomena, which is subject to changes and accidents.
– PHRASES
in substance
essentially:
basic rights are equivalent in substance to human rights.
– ORIGIN Middle English (denoting the essential nature of something): from Old French, from Latin substantia ‘being, essence’, from substant- ‘standing firm’, from the verb substare.
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The act,process or preserving something.