Conversion (barn)
WordNet
noun
(1) A spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life
(2) A successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown
(3) The act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another
(4) Act of exchanging one type of money or security for another
(5) A change in the units or form of an expression: "conversion from Fahrenheit to Centigrade"
(6) Interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition
(7) A change of religion
"His conversion to the Catholic faith"
(8) An event that results in a transformation
(9) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis
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Etymology
< conversion < conversio, from convertere.
Noun
- The act of having converted something or someone.
- His conversion to Christianity
- The conversion of the database from ASCII to Unicode
- A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
- A free-kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
- extra point scored by kicking a field goal after scoring a touchdown.
- An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
- 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.