conversion

Definitions

1. 1noun

   The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.

2. 2noun

   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. 3noun

   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. 4noun

   The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.

5. 5noun

   A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions.

6. 6noun

   A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank.

7. 7noun

   A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles.

8. 8noun

   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.

9. 9noun

   a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life

   Synonyms

   rebirth
10. 10noun

    a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown

11. 11noun

    the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another

12. 12noun

    act of exchanging one type of money or security for another

13. 13noun

    a change in the units or form of an expression: "conversion from Fahrenheit to Centigrade"

14. 14noun

    interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition

15. 15noun

    a change of religion

    "his conversion to the Catholic faith"

16. 16noun

    an event that results in a transformation

    Synonyms

    changeovertransition
17. 17noun

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