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noun

the act or process of converting; state of being converted.

change in character, form, or function.

spiritual change from sinfulness to righteousness.

change from one religion, political belief, viewpoint, etc., to another.

a change of attitude, emotion, or viewpoint from one of indifference, disbelief, or antagonism to one of acceptance, faith, or enthusiastic support, especially such a change in a person's religion.

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a physical transformation from one material or state to another: conversion of coal, water, and air into nylon.

the act of obtaining equivalent value, as of money or units of measurement, in an exchange or calculation: conversion of francs into dollars.

a physical, structural, or design change or transformation from one state or condition to another, especially to effect a change in function: conversion of a freighter into a passenger liner.

a substitution of one component for another so as to effect a change: conversion from oil heat to gas heat.

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Mathematics. a change in the form or units of an expression.

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Logic. the transposition of the subject and predicate of a proposition, as “No good man is unhappy” becomes by conversion “No unhappy man is good.”

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Law.

unauthorized assumption and exercise of rights of ownership over personal property belonging to another.

change from realty into personalty, or vice versa, as in the sale or purchase of land or mining coal.

13.

Football. a score made on a try for a point after touchdown by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the bar between the goalposts or by completing a pass in or running the ball into the end zone.

14.

Psychoanalysis. the process by which a repressed psychic event, idea, feeling, memory, or impulse is represented by a bodily change or symptom.

15.

Physics. the production of radioactive material in a process in which one nuclear fuel is converted into another by the capture of neutrons. Compare breeding (def. 6).

16.

Computers.

the process of changing software designed to run on one computer system to run on another.

the change from an existing computer system to a new computer system.

the act of transferring or copying data stored on one storage medium to another storage medium.

the process of changing the base that a number or numbers are written in.

17.

the transformation of material from a form suitable for printing by one process to a form suitable for another process: a halftone gravure conversion.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English conversio(u)n (< Anglo-French ) < Latin conversiōn- (stem of conversiō) a complete change. See converse², -ion

Related forms

con·ver·sion·al, con·ver·sion·ar·y

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n-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] , adjective

non·con·ver·sion, noun

pre·con·ver·sion, noun

sem·i·con·ver·sion, noun

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Example Sentences

Conversion in a tight housing market has provided the entrepreneurial incentive to supply more than the minimal improvements.

Pressing the bookmarklet when you are on a webpage you wish to copy starts the conversion process.

Better technology has stimulated demand, resulting in more energy being purchased for conversion into light.

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Conversion in a tight housing market has provided the entrepreneurial incentive to supply more than the minimal improvements.

Pressing the bookmarklet when you are on a webpage you wish to copy starts the conversion process.

Better technology has stimulated demand, resulting in more energy being purchased for conversion into light.

The blackness could soak up nearly all the sunlight shined on it, making the light available for conversion to electricity.

Although single-crystal cells offer high conversion efficiencies, they are expensive to make.

It would have been even more informative if you had included the temperature conversion factors between various scales.

As with any remodel, a garage conversion requires a building permit and must meet local codes.

The new venture will do everything from install the conversion kits to fuel the vehicles.

Slow sales and tumbling prices have so weakenened the positions of some sponsors that they are abandoning their conversion plans.

Remington's conversion took effect earlier this month.

Until recently the conversion was made using copper wire.

The world is still a long way off from large-scale conversion from fossil fuels to hydrogen for its energy needs.

As such, the widespread conversion of peat bogs into commercial uses around the world is serious cause for alarm.

The physical extent of land conversion for human activities is only part of the story, however.

The cornerstone of this conversion is a diesel engine.

After considerable delay, the digital television conversion is actually going to happen.

It was the start of a religious conversion of sorts.

The reason that this form of solar power is preferred over direct conversion is, of course, energy storage.

The basic principle of wind turbine operation is the conversion of the kinetic energy of moving air into electrical energy.

We only have a couple hundred years of coal and uranium reserves and as sault says conversion to renewables are inevitable.

Most every stephen sondheim nut has had a kind of near-mystical conversion experience.

It can also perform a similar conversion on carbon dioxide, converting it to carbon monoxide and oxygen.

In many cases a long intellectual preparation for conversion took place within other churches.

He clearly underwent a conversion of sorts, and he's now a firm believer in online learning.

What no one is sure about is what is doing the conversion.

The major threat to this region is deforestation brought about by logging and land conversion for agriculture.

It is useful to examine the impacts of a monolithic energy conversion strategy using various energy conversion technologies.

The conversion process also produces oxygen and water for backup life-support supplies.

They'll have to do the conversion to the four-point scale, set up the calculation, etc.

But talk of a right-wing conversion is oversimplified.

Conversion of natural habitats to agriculture presents another threat.

In that case, conversion experiences are simply a symptom of a wider problem.

Between these two, you can pretty much wave goodbye to video conversion.

Rates of conversion and intermarriage are at all-time highs.

Diverting food for fuel, argues a band of scientists, drives the conversion of forests to farmland.

The conversion of sunlight through the green pigment chlorophyll in plants uses carbon dioxide and water and releases oxygen.

Most people interested in such a conversion are doing it for the sake of the environment, not their pocketbooks.

Two years later he promised a public-sector pay freeze as part of his broader conversion to austerity.

Morse said, and only about three species had been spotted after the conversion to agriculture.

Jabez's obscurity makes him ideal for the narrative of conversion and redemption.

If that were the only factor, conversion would seem an excellent idea.

Students may need to convert measurements using the conversion calculator.

Portugal's relatively late conversion to a market-oriented banking system makes generalisations tricky.

The author of this article erred in the units conversion of the volume of magma in the surge.

In both cases, the conversion may not preserve all the original formatting.

Land-use conversion regulations have also been tightened in an effort to reduce unrest provoked by unfair seizures of land.

Responsible for its downturn: conversion of sagebrush habitat to agriculture.

Conceivably, drugs that make more of these proteins could jump-start a conversion of white fat cells to brown fat cells.

Its genes maximize the conversion of solar rays into sugars and.

Conversion kits are a great way to go because they are cheaper than buying the components separately and are easy to find online.

The defensiveness will cement her sudden conversion into a fierce opponent of nuclear power.

While logging has been extensive, urban development and land conversion has so far been minimal.

Afforestation is the conversion of land that was not historically forested into a forest.

My conversion was less dramatic, of course, but my life would never be the same.

The conversion process can be tweaked to minimize tailpipe pollution.

But several companies offer conversion kits and turn-key cars.

Swedish finish is an alcohol-based acid-curing conversion varnish.

Iraq's overdue conversion to fully electronic banking should help woo investors from abroad and pep up the economy as a whole.

After conversion they could make twenty trips for that price.

Embraer also has been selling ethanol conversion kits for customers who purchased earlier versions of the plane.

Conversion into a cult is done by dynamic interactions.

Decimal time and longitude would then correlate directly without the need for logarithmic conversion tables.

Entropy is the increasing of randonmess in nature, reflected in one way by the conversion and use of energy.

These conversion narratives are boring and shallow.

The area is subject to various overlapping concessions, including preliminary licences for conversion to palm-oil plantations.

But they weren't normal when it comes to conversion into ethanol-they were much better.

Zakbos, it seems to me important to distinguish between conversation and conversion.

The components that do such conversion are expensive.

As one might predict, the conversion has been less than a total success.

BP's boss at the time and the moving force behind the firm's conversion to greenery.

The history of the conversion of this waste product to wonder drug is littered with conflicts of interest and evidence of deceit.

The conversion to lean manufacture in its factories has spurred a need for ever-more sophisticated logistics.

Conversion cells can even be produced using microchip production methods.

Above all, it wants to make sure that a conversion to electric motoring goes smoothly, unlike a previous attempt in the mid-1990s.

The conversion of substance to nature is considered birth, whereas the conversion of nature to substance is considered death.

New approaches that use cellulosic waste as foodstock for conversion into alkenes promise to provide a better way forward.

However, the conversion to primarily testosterone is what causes the male characteristics.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

conversion (kənˈvɜːʃən)

—n
1.	a. a change or adaptation in form, character, or function
	b. something changed in one of these respects
2.	a change to another attitude or belief, as in a change of religion
3.	maths a change in the units or form of a number or expression: the conversion of miles to kilometres involves multiplying by 1.61
4.	logic a form of inference by which one proposition is obtained as the converse of another proposition
5.	law
	a. unauthorized dealing with or the assumption of rights of ownership to another's personal property
	b. the changing of real property into personalty or personalty into realty
6.	rugby a score made after a try by kicking the ball over the crossbar from a place kick
7.	physics a change of fertile material to fissile material in a reactor
8.	a. an alteration to a car engine to improve its performance
	b. (as modifier): a conversion kit
9.	material alteration to the structure or fittings of a building undergoing a change in function or legal status
10.	(NZ) the unauthorized appropriation of a motor vehicle

[C14: from Latin conversiō a turning around; see convert]

con'versional

—*adj*

con'versionary

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

conversion

mid-14c., originally of religion, from Fr. conversion, from L. conversionem, from convertere (see convert). Of buildings, from 1921. Conversion disorder "hysteria" (attested from 1946 but said to have been coined by Freud) was in DSM-IV (1994).

American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

conversion con·ver·sion (kən-vûr'zhən, -shən)
n.

The acquisition by bacteria of a new property associated with presence of a prophage.
A defense mechanism in which repressed ideas, conflicts, or impulses are manifested by various bodily symptoms, such as paralysis or breathing difficulties, that have no physical cause.

con·ver'sive (-sĭv) adj.

Easton

Bible Dictionary

Conversion definition

the turning of a sinner to God (Acts 15:3). In a general sense the heathen are said to be "converted" when they abandon heathenism and embrace the Christian faith; and in a more special sense men are converted when, by the influence of divine grace in their souls, their whole life is changed, old things pass away, and all things become new (Acts 26:18). Thus we speak of the conversion of the Philippian jailer (16:19-34), of Paul (9:1-22), of the Ethiopian treasurer (8:26-40), of Cornelius (10), of Lydia (16:13-15), and others. (See REGENERATION.)

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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