conversion
conversion is a 10-letter English word with 17 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.
- noun. A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions.
- noun. A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank.
- noun. A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles.
- noun. 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.
- noun. a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life
- noun. a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown
- noun. the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another
- noun. act of exchanging one type of money or security for another
- noun. a change in the units or form of an expression: "conversion from Fahrenheit to Centigrade"
- noun. interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition
- noun. a change of religion
"his conversion to the Catholic faith"
- noun. an event that results in a transformation
- noun. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis
Synonyms
rebirth, changeover, transition
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