FromMiddle Englishconversion,conversioun, borrowed fromAnglo-Normanconversion, fromLatinconversiō, fromconvertō.
conversion (countable anduncountable,pluralconversions)
- The act ofconverting something or someone.
- Synonyms:metamorphosis,transfiguration,transformation;see alsoThesaurus:conversion
Hisconversion to Christianity
Theconversion of the database from ASCII to Unicode
1627 (indicated as1626),Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […],→OCLC:Artificialconversion of water into ice.
- (computing) Asoftwareproduct converted from oneplatform to another.
1988 December,Crash, number59:Mike Follin[…] also programmed the Spectrum version ofThe Sentinel (97%, Issue 40), and the excellent coin-opconversionsBubble Bobble (90%, Issue 45) andBionic Commando (92%, Issue 53).
- (chemistry) A chemical reaction wherein asubstrate is transformed into aproduct.
- (rugby) A free kick, after scoring atry, worth two points.
- (American football) An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into theend zone after scoring a touchdown.
- (marketing) An online advertising performancemetric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
- (law) Under thecommon law, thetort of the taking of someone'spersonal property withintent to permanentlydeprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making thetortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.
theconversion of a horse
1662 (indicated as1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, inHudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn andHenry Herringman, […], published1678; republished inA[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor,Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:University Press,1905,→OCLC:Or bring my action ofconversion / And trover for my goods.
- Living space in a part of a building that was previously uninhabitable, or the process of constructing such living space.
2005, Jason Francis MacCannell,Homelessness in Sacramento: A Landscape Geography:He might even sleep informally: in his vehicle, in a garage-conversion apartment, or beneath a freeway overpass, any of which would be rendered part of the informal landscape by his very act of sleeping.
2010 March 24, Sandra Rinomato,Realty Check: Real Estate Secrets for First-Time Canadian Home Buyers, John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN, page110:An eccentric artist friend of mine lives in a loftconversion that features a lot of unusual brickwork and glass ornamentation.
2014 July 8, Centaur Media,20 Ways to Add Space and Value to Your Homes, Centaur Media, page32:Betternest says a cellarconversion could add around 25 per cent to your home's value.
- (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.
- Hyponyms:anthimeria,shift,shifting
- (obsolete) The act of turning round;revolution;rotation.
- (logic) The act of interchanging theterms of aproposition, as by putting thesubject in the place of thepredicate, or vice versa.
- (mathematics) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.
theconversion of equations; theconversion of proportions
- (slang, board games) Changing aminiature figure into another character, usually by mixing different parts, or molding the model's parts, or doing both.
- Hyponym:kitbashing
the act of having converted something or someone
- Bulgarian:обръщане (bg) n(obrǎštane),превръщане (bg) n(prevrǎštane)
- Dutch:bekering (nl) f
- Esperanto:konverto (eo)
- Estonian:muundamine
- Finnish:käännyttäminen (fi)(someone),muunnos (fi),muuntaminen (fi),kääntäminen (fi)(something)
- French:conversion (fr) f
- Galician:conversión (gl) f
- German:Umwandlung (de) f
- Gothic:𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f(gawandeins)
- Greek:μεταστροφή (el) f(metastrofí)
- Ancient:ἐπιστροφή f(epistrophḗ)
- Hebrew:המרת דת f(hamarat dat)(to replace one religious faith with another)
- Hungarian:(an action)átalakítás (hu),átváltás (hu),konvertálás (hu),konverzió (hu),(a process)átalakulás (hu),(in religion)áttérés (hu),betérés (hu),megtérés (hu)
- Irish:tiontú m
- Isoko:sta
- Italian:conversione (it) f
- Japanese:改宗 (ja)(kaishū)
- Maori:whakatahuritanga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:konvertering m orf
- Nynorsk:konvertering f
- Polish:konwersja (pl) f,adaptacja (pl) f(in construction)
- Portuguese:conversão (pt) f
- Romanian:transformare (ro) f,conversiune (ro) f,conversie f,prefacere (ro) f,convertire (ro) f
- Russian:превраще́ние (ru) n(prevraščénije),обраще́ние (ru) n(obraščénije),конве́рсия (ru) f(konvérsija)
- Scottish Gaelic:iompachadh m
- Spanish:conversión (es) f
- Telugu:మార్పిడి(mārpiḍi)
- Turkish:çevirim (tr),dönüşüm (tr),dönüştürüm (tr),komütasyon,konversiyon (tr),tahavvül (tr),tahvil (tr)
- Zazaki:tadayış
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the result of a chemical reaction wherein the molecule changes form
American football: extra point
linguistics: the process whereby a new word is created without changing the form
Learned borrowing fromLatinconversiō, fromconvertō.
conversion f (pluralconversions)
- conversion
- (religion)conversion
- Coordinate term:apostasie
- (linguistics)conversion,zero derivation
- Synonym:dérivation zéro
- (pseudosciences)conversion
- thérapie deconversion ―(please add an English translation of this usage example)
