conversion

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act of converting.
2. n. The state of being converted.
3. n. A change in which one adopts a new religion, faith, or belief.
4. n. Something that is changed from one use, function, or purpose to another.
5. n. Law The unlawful appropriation of another's property.
6. n. Law The changing of real property to personal property or vice versa.
7. n. The exchange of one type of security or currency for another.
8. n. Logic The interchange of the subject and predicate of a proposition.
9. n. Football An extra point or points scored after a touchdown, as by kicking the ball through the uprights or by advancing the ball into the endzone from the three-yard line.
10. n. Psychiatry A psychological defense mechanism by which repressed ideas, conflicts, or impulses are manifested by various bodily symptoms, such as paralysis or sensory deficits, that have no physical cause.
11. n. The expression of a quantity in alternative units, as of length or weight.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In general, a turning or changing from one State or form to another; transmutation; transformation: sometimes implying total loss of identity: as, a conversion of water into ice, or of food into chyle or blood; the conversion of a thing from its original purpose to another; the conversion of land into money.
2. n. Specifically In logic, that immediate. inference which transforms a proposition into another whose subject-term is the predicate-term, and whose predicate-term the subject-term, of the former. Simple, proper, or direct conversion is that in which the quantity and quality of the propositions remain unchanged: as, No good man is unhappy; hence (by conversion), No unhappy man is good. Conversion per accidens (by accident) is that in which the quality of the first proposition is unchanged while its quantity is changed: as, All cockatrices are non-existent; hence (by conversion), Some non-existent things are cockatrices. Conversion by contraposition is where the quantity and quality are preserved, but the terms are infinitated: as, Some Chinamen are not honest; hence, Some nonhonest persons are not non-Chinamen. The traditional rules of conversion are embodied in the verses
3. n. where the vowels of feci, eva, astro, show the kinds of propositions which can be converted in the three ways. (See A, 2 .) A diminute conversion is a conversion of a proposition such that the consequent asserts less than the antecedent: as, All lawyers are honest, and therefore some honest men are lawyers. An improper or reductive conversion is a conversion per accidens or by contraposition. A universal conversion is an inference by conversion whose conclusion is a universal proposition; a partial conversion, one whose conclusion is a particular proposition. [The Latin conversio was first used in this sense by Appuleius to translate Aristotle's ἀντιστροφ/η.]
4. n. In theology, a radical and complete change, sudden or gradual, in the spirit, purpose, and direction of the life, from one of self-seeking and enmity toward God to one of love toward God and man.
5. n. Change from one religion to another, or from one side or party to another, especially from one that is regarded as false to one that is regarded as true.
6. n. Milit.: A change of front, as of a body of troops attacked in flank. The application of condemned stores to uses other than that originally intended.
7. n. In ordnance, the alteration of a smooth-bore gun into a rifled gun by inserting a lining-tube of wrought-iron or steel.
8. n. In law: An unauthorized assumption and exercise of the right of ownership over personal property belonging to another in hostility to his rights; an act of dominion over the personal property of another inconsistent with his rights; unauthorized appropriation. A change from realty into personalty, or vice versa. See equitable conversion, under equitable.
9. n. Nautical, the reduction of a vessel by one deck, so as to convert a line-of-battle ship into a frigate, or a crank three-decker into a good two-decker, or a serviceable vessel into a hulk.
10. n. In dyeing. See extract.
11. n. Substitution of or exchange for something else, especially of one kind of property for another; specifically, the change of an issue of public securities, of bonds, debentures, stocks, shares, etc., into another of different character or with an altered (generally reduced) rate of interest. Also attributively: as, conversion scheme, conversion operation, etc.
12. n. In ship-building, the selection, laying out, and working of plank and timber so as to have the least possible waste.
13. n. In forestry, a change from one system of forest management to another, as from the sprout system to the seed system.
14. n. In steel manuf., the process of changing iron into steel, especially by the cementation process. See cementation.

Wiktionary

1. n. The act of having converted something or someone.
2. n. A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
3. n. A free-kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
4. n. An extra point scored by kicking a field goal after scoring a touchdown.
5. n. An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
6. n. Under 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.
7. n. 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.
8. n. The act of turning round; revolution; rotation.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.
2. n. The act of changing one's views or course, as in passing from one side, party, or from of religion to another; also, the state of being so changed.
3. n. An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right.
4. n. The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.
5. n. A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.
6. n. A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank.
7. n. A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles.
8. n. A spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction; a change of heart; a change from the service of the world to the service of God; a change of the ruling disposition of the soul, involving a transformation of the outward life.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition
2. n. an event that results in a transformation
3. n. the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another
4. n. a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown
5. n. a change of religion
6. n. a change in the units or form of an expression:
7. n. act of exchanging one type of money or security for another
8. n. a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life
9. n. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis