1. the act or process of converting; state of being converted.
2. a change in character, form, or function.
3. a change from one religion, political belief, viewpoint, etc., to another.
4. a thoroughgoing spiritual change that involves repentance and a turn toward God or right living.
5. a change of attitude, emotion, or viewpoint from one of indifference, disbelief, or antagonism to one of acceptance, faith, or enthusiastic support, especially such a change in a person's religion.
6. a physical transformation from one material or state to another: conversion of coal, water, and air into nylon.
7. the act of obtaining equivalent value, as of money or units of measurement, in an exchange or calculation: conversion of yen into dollars.
8. a physical, structural, or design change or transformation from one state or condition to another, especially to effect a change in function: conversion of a freighter into a passenger liner.
9. a substitution of one component for another so as to effect a change: conversion from oil heat to gas heat.
10. a change in the form or units of an expression.
11. the transposition of the subject and predicate of a proposition, as “No good man is unhappy” becomes by conversion “No unhappy man is good.”
12. Law.
• unauthorized assumption and exercise of rights of ownership over personal property belonging to another.
• a change from realty into personalty, or vice versa, as in the sale or purchase of land or the mining of coal.
13. a score made on a try for a point after touchdown by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the bar between the goalposts or by completing a pass in or running the ball into the end zone.
14. the process by which a repressed psychic event, idea, feeling, memory, or impulse is represented by a bodily change or symptom.
15. the production of radioactive material in a process in which one nuclear fuel is converted into another by the capture of neutrons.
16. a performance metric for a website that counts the percentage of visitors that engage in the intended purpose of the site, as making a purchase or signing a petition: The site was redesigned to simplify user interactions and optimize conversion.
17. Computers.
• the act or process of transferring data from one format into another.
• the act of transferring or copying stored data from one storage medium to another.
• porting¹.
• the change from an existing computer system to a new computer system.
• the process of changing the base that a number or numbers are written in.
18. the transformation of material from a form suitable for printing by one process to a form suitable for another process: a halftone gravure conversion.

• a change or adaptation in form, character, or function
• something changed in one of these respects
2. a change to another attitude or belief, as in a change of religion
3. a change in the units or form of a number or expression
4. a form of inference by which one proposition is obtained as the converse of another proposition
5. law
• unauthorized dealing with or the assumption of rights of ownership to another's personal property
• the changing of real property into personalty or personalty into realty
6. a score made after a try by kicking the ball over the crossbar from a place kick
7. a change of fertile material to fissile material in a reactor
• an alteration to a car engine to improve its performance
• (as modifier)
9. material alteration to the structure or fittings of a building undergoing a change in function or legal status
10. the unauthorized appropriation of a motor vehicle

More Definitions

• N (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples
• SOFT PORNOGRAPHY (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples
• BROWNSVILLE (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples
• PSV (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples
• MASURIAN (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples
• SAR (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples