Definitions of Conversion [ənˈvɜr ʒən, -ʃən]

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Definition of 'Conversion'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) conversion
the act or process of converting; the state of being converted.

2.  conversion
change in character, form, or function.

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

4.  conversion
a physical transformation from one material or state to another:
conversion of base metals into gold.

5.  conversion
the act of obtaining equivalent value, as of money or units of measurement, in an exchange or calculation.

6.  conversion
a physical, structural, or design change, as in a building, to effect a change in function.

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

8.  conversion
a change in the form or units of a mathematical expression.

9.  conversion
the transposition of the subject and predicate of a logical proposition, as in converting “No good man is unhappy” to “No unhappy man is good.”

10.  conversion
the making of an additional score in certain sports, as on a try for a point after a touchdown in football.

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

12.  conversion
the process of enabling software for one computer system to run on another.

13.  conversion
the transformation of data from a form compatible with one computer program to a form compatible with another.

Etymology: (1300–50; ME (< AF) < L conversiō a complete change. See convert , -tion)

Definition of 'Conversion'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) conversion, transition, changeover
an event that results in a transformation

2. (noun) conversion
a change in the units or form of an expression: "conversion from Fahrenheit to Centigrade"

3. (noun) conversion
a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown

4. (noun) conversion, rebirth, spiritual rebirth
a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life

5. (noun) conversion
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis

6. (noun) conversion
a change of religion
"his conversion to the Catholic faith"

7. (noun) conversion
interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition

8. (noun) conversion
act of exchanging one type of money or security for another

9. (noun) conversion
the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another

Definition of 'Conversion'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) conversion
the act or process of changing from one thing to another
the conversion of food into energy; metric conversions

2. conversion
the act or process of changing from one religion or set of beliefs to another
religious conversion

Definition of 'Conversion'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Conversion
the act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change

2. (noun) Conversion
the act of changing one's views or course, as in passing from one side, party, or from of religion to another; also, the state of being so changed

3. (noun) Conversion
an appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse

4. (noun) Conversion
the act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary

5. (noun) Conversion
a change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions

6. (noun) Conversion
a change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank

7. (noun) Conversion
a change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles

8. (noun) Conversion
a spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction; a change of heart; a change from the service of the world to the service of God; a change of the ruling disposition of the soul, involving a transformation of the outward life

Definitions of 'Conversion'

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. Conversion
"the grand epoch for a man," says Carlyle, "properly the one epoch; the turning-point, which guides upwards, or guides downwards, him and his activities for evermore."

Convocation

Definitions of 'Conversion'

The Roycroft Dictionary

Conversion
1. To be suddenly seized by fright before a fiction or a fact.

2. To execute a mental and moral pirouette from one absurdity to a worse one.

3. To exhaust one pleasure and seek redemption in another.

4. A backslider from your own ideas to those of an inferior.

Translation of 'Conversion'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the act of converting his conversion to Christianity; the conversion of the house into a hotel.
Afrikaans: bekering, omskepping	Arabic: تَحْـويل، هِداية، اعتِنـا	Bulgarian: превръщане
Brazilian: conversão	Czech: přeměna, obrat (na/k)	German: die Umwandlung, derÜbertr
Danish: omvendelse; ombygning; ko	Greek: προσηλυτισμός, μετατροπή	Spanish: conversión; transformació
Estonian: pöördumine, muutmine	Farsi: تبدیل؛ تغییر	Finnish: muuntaminen
French: conversion, transformatio	Hebrew: הֲפִיכָה, הֲמָרָה	Hindi: रूपान्तर
Croatian: pretvaranje, konverzija,	Hungarian: megtérés; átalakulás	Indonesian: perubahan
Icelandic: (um)breyting; trúskipti	Italian: conversione	Japanese: 転換
Korean: 개종, 전환	Lithuanian: at(si)vertimas, (pa)verti	Latvian: pārvēršana; pārveidošana;
Malay: penukaran	Dutch: bekering, omzetting	Norwegian: omvendelse; ombygging, fo
Polish: przemiana, nawrócenie się	Persian: تبدیل؛ تغییر	Pashto: اړونه، كرزونه (له يوه حال
Portuguese: conversão	Romanian: convertire, transformare	Russian: обращение; превращение
Slovak: konverzia; premena	Slovenian: spreobrnitev, preureditev	Serbian: preobraćanje
Swedish: omvandling, omvändelse, o	Thai: การเปลี่ยนความเชื่อ; การเ	Turkish: din değiştirme, dönme; ta
Taiwanese: 轉變，換算	Ukrainian: навертання; перетворення	Urdu: تبديلى، تغير
Vietnamese: sự chuyển đổi	Chinese: 变换，转化
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