See Also: Conversion; Conversion Rights(law)
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conversion (iou)



conversion noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin conversio(n-), from convers- pa. ppl stem of convertere: see CONVERT verb, -ION.]
I. Change in character, nature, etc.
Theology. The turning of sinners to God; a change from sinfulness to righteousness. ME.
The action of bringing a person over, or the fact of being brought over, to a particular belief or opinion, spec. to a religious faith. LME.
S. Lewis To be picked out as a missionary within half an hour of his conversion! Oxford English Dictionary Conversion to Free Trade principles.
The action or an act of changing or being changed (to or into something else); (esp. structural) alteration for a different function. LME.
Bacon Artificiall Conuersion of Water into Ice. P. Norman Conversion of the High Street shop into a cafe.
b. spec. The structural adaptation of (part of) a building for new purposes; (a part of) a building so modified. E20.
c. Grammar. Change of the function or class of a word; zero derivation. E20.
d. Rugby & N. Amer. Football. The action or an act of scoring immediately following a try, by kicking the ball over the crossbar from a place-kick. E20.
e. The transformation of fertile into fissile material in a nuclear reactor. M20.
Military. The converting of files into ranks; a change of front to a flank. L16-M19.
II. Turning.
The action or an act of turning (to a particular direction) or of directing to some object; turning round, revolution, rotation; turning back, returning, spec. the solstice. LME-E18.
Transposition, inversion; spec. in Logic, (an instance of) the transposition of the subject and predicate of a proposition to form a new proposition. M16.
Rhetoric. = ANTISTROPHE 1. Also = APOSTROPHE noun1. M16-M18.
Law. The action of wrongfully dealing with goods in a manner inconsistent with the owner's rights. E17.
N. Bacon Fraudulent conversion of Treasure-trove.
III. Change by substitution.
The change of moneys, stocks, units in which a quantity is expressed, etc., into others of a different kind. M16.
b. (A) translation into another language. L16-M17.
Law. (An instance of) the changing of real property into personalty, or of joint into separate property, or vice versa. L18.
Psychiatry. The manifestation of a mental disturbance as a physical disorder or disease. L19.
Comb.: conversion factor (a) an arithmetical multiplier for converting a quantity expressed in one set of units into an equivalent expressed in another; (b) Economics the manufacturing cost of a product relative to the cost of raw materials; conversion hysteria, conversion symptom, etc. Psychiatry: manifesting conversion (sense 11 above).
conversionism noun preoccupation with bringing about the religious conversion of others L19.
conversionist noun a person advocating or preoccupied with the religious conversion of others L19.