Conversion

English Meaning

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

1. The act of converting.
2. The state of being converted.
3. A change in which one adopts a new religion, faith, or belief.
4. Something that is changed from one use, function, or purpose to another.
5. Law The unlawful appropriation of another's property.
6. Law The changing of real property to personal property or vice versa.
7. The exchange of one type of security or currency for another.
8. Logic The interchange of the subject and predicate of a proposition.
9. Football An extra point or points scored after a touchdown, as by kicking the ball through the uprights or by advancing the ball into the endzone from the three-yard line.
10. Psychiatry A psychological defense mechanism by which repressed ideas, conflicts, or impulses are manifested by various bodily symptoms, such as paralysis or sensory deficits, that have no physical cause.
11. The expression of a quantity in alternative units, as of length or weight.