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converter (iou)



converter noun. M16.
[from CONVERT verb + -ER1.]
A person who converts one thing into another, or who converts a thing to his or her own use. M16.
A person who makes converts. L16.
An apparatus for converting or transforming one thing into another; spec. (a) a refractory-lined retort in which air or oxygen can be passed through a charge of metal or ore in certain metallurgical (esp. steel-making) processes; (b) a device for altering the nature of an electrical current, esp. for the interconversion of alternating current and direct current or of analogue and digital data signals; (c) (in full converter reactor) a nuclear reactor that transforms fertile material into fissile material. M19.
BESSEMER converter. CATALYTIC converter. rotary converter: see ROTARY adjective.