conversion

plural conversions

1. countableuncountableThe act of converting something or someone.

   His conversion to Christianity

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   The conversion of the database from ASCII to Unicode

   Artificial conversion of water into ice.

   1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC

   Synonyms: metamorphosis, transfiguration, transformation

2. countableuncountablecomputingA software product converted from one platform to another.

   Mike Follin […] also programmed the Spectrum version of The Sentinel (97%, Issue 40), and the excellent coin-op conversions Bubble Bobble (90%, Issue 45) and Bionic Commando (92%, Issue 53).

   1988 December, Crash, number 59

3. countableuncountablechemistryA chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
4. countableuncountableball gamesA free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
5. countableuncountableAmerican footballAn extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.
6. countableuncountablebusinessAn online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
7. countableuncountablelawUnder the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.

   the conversion of a horse

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   Or bring my action of conversion / And trover for my goods.

   1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC

8. countableuncountableLiving space in a part of a building that was previously uninhabitable, or the process of constructing such living space.

   a loft conversion

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   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.

   2005, Jason Francis MacCannell, Homelessness in Sacramento: A Landscape Geography

   An eccentric artist friend of mine lives in a loft conversion that features a lot of unusual brickwork and glass ornamentation.

   2010 March 24, Sandra Rinomato, Realty Check: Real Estate Secrets for First-Time Canadian Home Buyers, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 110

   Betternest says a cellar conversion could add around 25 per cent to your home's value.

   2014 July 8, Centaur Media, 20 Ways to Add Space and Value to Your Homes, Centaur Media, page 32

9. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech.
10. countableobsoleteuncountableThe act of turning round; revolution; rotation.
11. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
12. countableuncountablemathematicsA change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.

    the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions

13. countableslanguncountableboard gamesChanging a miniature figure into another character, usually by mixing different parts, or molding the model's parts, or doing both.