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.”
11. conversion Psychoanal. the process by which a repressed psychic event, idea, feeling, memory, or impulse is represented by a bodily change or symptom.
5. (noun)conversion (psychiatry) a defensemechanism 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
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 grandepoch 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.