- a person or thing that converts.
- a device that converts alternating current to direct current or vice versa.
- a chamber or vessel through which an oxidizing blast of air is forced, as in making steel by the Bessemer process.
- decoder (def. 5).
- an auxiliary device that permits a receiver to pick up frequencies or channels for which it was not originally designed.
- a reactor for converting one kind of fuel into another kind.
- a person who is engaged in converting textile fabrics, especially cotton cloths, from the raw state into the finished product ready for the market by bleaching, dyeing, etc.
- an additional lens attached to a lens in use on a camera to alter focal length, mounted in front of a lens to produce a wide-angle effect (wide-angle converter, or wide-angle converter lens ) or between the lens and the camera body to produce a telephoto effect (teleconverter, or extender ).
- a person or thing that converts
- physics
- a device for converting alternating current to direct current or vice versa
- a device for converting a signal from one frequency to another or from analogue to digital forms
- a vessel in which molten metal is refined, using a blast of air or oxygen
- short for converter reactor
- a device for converting one form of coded information to another, such as an analogue-to-digital converter
