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Definition of conversion
- n. - The act of turning or changing from one state or
condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation;
change.
- 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.
- n. - An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of
another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a
horse.
- n. - The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as
by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.
- n. - A change or reduction of the form or value of a
proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of
proportions.
- n. - A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the
flank.
- n. - A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns
into rifles.
- 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.