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Webster 1913 Edition
Conversion
1.
The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.
Artificial
conversion
of water into ice. Bacon.
The
conversion
of the aliment into fat. Arbuthnot.
2.
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.
“Conversion to Christianity.” Prescott.
3.
(Law)
An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right;
as, the
. conversion
of a horseOr bring my action of
And trover for my goods.
conversion
And trover for my goods.
Hudibras.
4.
(Logic)
The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.
5.
(Math.)
A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition;
as, the
. conversion
of equations; the conversion
of proportions6.
(Mil.)
(a)
A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank.
(b)
A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles.
7.
(Theol.)
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.
He oft
Frequented their assemblies, . . . and to them preached
In prison under judgments imminent.
Frequented their assemblies, . . . and to them preached
Conversion
and repentance, as to soulsIn prison under judgments imminent.
Milton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Conversion
CONVERSION
,Noun.
1.
In a general sense, a turning or change from one state to another; with regard to substances, transmutation; as a conversion of water into ice, or of food into chyle or blood.2.
In military affairs, a change of front, as when a body of troops is attacked in the flank, and they change their position to face the enemy.3.
In a theological or moral sense, a change of heart, or dispositions, in which the enmity of the heart to God and his law and the obstinacy of the will are subdued, and are succeeded by supreme love to God and his moral government, and a reformation of life.4.
Change from one side or party to another.That conversion will be suspected that apparently concurs with interest.
5.
A change from one religion to another; as the conversion of the Gentiles. Acts 15.6.
The act of appropriating to private use; as in trover and conversion.Conversion of equations, in algebra, the reduction of equations by multiplication, or the manner of altering an equation, when the quantity sought or any member of it is a fraction; the reducing of a fractional equation into an integral one.
Conversion of propositions, in logic, is a changing of the subject into the place of the predicate, and still retaining the quality of the proposition.
Conversion of the ratios, in arithmetic, is the comparing of the antecedent with the difference of the antecedent and consequent, in two equal ratios or proportions.
Definition 2024
conversion
conversion
See also: conversión
English
Noun
conversion (plural conversions)
- The act of converting something or someone.
- His conversion to Christianity
- The conversion of the database from ASCII to Unicode
- Francis Bacon
- Artificial conversion of water into ice.
- (computing) A software product converted from one platform to another.
- 1988, Crash (issue 59, December 1988)
- Mike Follin […] also programmed the Spectrum version of The Sentinel (97%, Issue 40), and the excellent coin-op conversions Bubble Bobble (90%, Issue 45) and Bionic Commando (92%, Issue 53).
- 1988, Crash (issue 59, December 1988)
- (chemistry) A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
- (rugby) A free-kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
- (American football) An extra point scored by kicking a field goal after scoring a touchdown.
- (marketing) An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
- (law) Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.
- the conversion of a horse
- Hudibras
- Or bring my action of conversion / And trover for my goods.
- (linguistics) The process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech; anthimeria
- (obsolete) The act of turning round; revolution; rotation.
- (logic) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
- (mathematics) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.
- the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions
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Translations
the act of having converted something or someone
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The result of a chemical reaction wherein the molecule changes form
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(rugby) A free-kick
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(american football) extra point
See also
French
Etymology
From Latin conversio, from convertere.
Noun
conversion f (plural conversions)