conversion

See also:conversión

English

Etymology

FromMiddle Englishconversion,conversioun,borrowed fromAnglo-Normanconversion,fromLatinconversiō,fromconvertō.

Pronunciation

• (UK)IPA^(key):/kənˈvɜːʃ(ə)n/,/-ʒ(ə)n/
• (US)enPR:kən-vûrʹzhən,IPA^(key):/kənˈvɝʒən/

• Audio(US):

  (file)

• Rhymes:-ɜː(ɹ)ʃən,-ɜː(ɹ)ʒən
• Hyphenation:con‧ver‧sion

Noun

conversion(countableanduncountable,pluralconversions)

1. The act ofconvertingsomething or someone.

   Hisconversionto Christianity

   Theconversionof the database from ASCII to Unicode

   • 1631,Francis [Bacon],“(please specify |century=I to X)”,inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries.[…],3rd edition, London:[…]William Rawley;[p]rinted by J[ohn]H[aviland]for William Lee[…],→OCLC:

     Artificialconversionof water into ice.

2. (computing)Asoftwareproductconverted from oneplatformto another.
   • 1988December,Crash,number59:

     Mike Follin[…]also programmed the Spectrum version ofThe Sentinel(97%, Issue 40), and the excellent coin-opconversionsBubble Bobble(90%, Issue 45) andBionic Commando(92%, Issue 53).

3. (chemistry)A chemical reaction wherein asubstrateis transformed into aproduct.
4. (rugby)A free kick, after scoring atry,worth two points.
5. (American football)An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into theend zoneafter scoring a touchdown.
6. (marketing)An online advertising performancemetricrepresenting a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
7. (law)Under thecommon law,thetortof the taking of someone'spersonal propertywithintentto permanentlydeprivethem of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making thetortfeasorliable for the entire value of the property.

   theconversionof a horse

   • 1662(indicated as1663),[Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”,inHudibras. The First and Second Parts.[…],London:[…]John MartynandHenry Herringman,[…],published1678;republished inA[lfred] R[ayney] Waller,editor,Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars,Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:University Press,1905,→OCLC:

     Or bring my action ofconversion/ And trover for my goods.

9. (linguistics)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.

   Hyponyms:anthimeria,shift,shifting

10. (obsolete)The act of turning round;revolution;rotation.
11. (logic)The act of interchanging thetermsof aproposition,as by putting thesubjectin the place of thepredicate,or vice versa.
12. (mathematics)A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.

    theconversionof equations; theconversionof proportions

13. (slang,board games)Changing aminiaturefigure into another character, usually by mixing different parts, or molding the model's parts, or doing both.

    Hyponym:kitbashing

Antonyms

• deconversion

Hyponyms

• type conversion

Derived terms

• alpha conversion
• anticonversion
• autoconversion
• backfile conversion
• bioconversion
• conversionary
• conversion course
• conversion disorder
• conversionless
• conversion rate
• conversion therapy
• conversion van
• Damascene conversion
• deathbed conversion
• deconversion
• eta conversion
• geroconversion
• immunoconversion
• interconversion
• laparoconversion
• metric conversion
• misconversion
• narrowing conversion
• Pauline conversion
• photoconversion
• postconversion
• preconversion
• retroconversion
• stereoconversion
• thermoconversion
• total conversion
• total conversion mod
• two-point conversion
• type conversion
• widening conversion

Related terms

• convert

Translations

the act of having converted something or someone

• Bulgarian:обръщане(bg)n(obrǎštane),превръщане(bg)n(prevrǎštane)
• Dutch:bekering(nl)f
• Esperanto:konverto(eo)
• Estonian:muundamine
• Finnish:käännyttäminen(fi)(someone),muunnos(fi),muuntaminen(fi),kääntäminen(fi)(something)
• French:conversion(fr)f
• Galician:conversión(gl)f
• German:Umwandlung(de)f
• Gothic:𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃f(gawandeins)
• Greek:μεταστροφή(el)f(metastrofí)

  Ancient:ἐπιστροφήf(epistrophḗ)

• Hebrew:המרת דתf(hamarat dat)(to replace one religious faith with another)
• Hungarian:(an action)átalakítás(hu),átváltás(hu),konvertálás(hu),konverzió(hu),(a process)átalakulás(hu),(in religion)áttérés(hu),betérés(hu),megtérés(hu)
• Isoko:sta
• Italian:conversione(it)f
• Japanese:Cải tông(ja)(kaishū)
• Maori:whakatahuritanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:konverteringmorf

  Nynorsk:konverteringf

• Polish:konwersja(pl)f,adaptacja(pl)f(in construction)
• Portuguese:conversão(pt)f
• Romanian:transformare(ro)f,conversiune(ro)f,conversief,prefacere(ro)f,convertire(ro)f
• Russian:превраще́ние(ru)n(prevraščénije),обраще́ние(ru)n(obraščénije),конве́рсия(ru)f(konvérsija)
• Scottish Gaelic:iompachadhm
• Spanish:conversiónf
• Telugu:మార్పిడి(mārpiḍi)
• Turkish:çevirim(tr),dönüşüm(tr),dönüştürüm(tr),komütasyon,konversiyon(tr),tahavvül(tr),tahvil(tr)
• Zazaki:tadayış

the result of a chemical reaction wherein the molecule changes form

• Bulgarian:превръщане(bg)n(prevrǎštane)
• Dutch:omzetting(nl)f
• Italian:conversione(it)f
• Polish:konwersja(pl)f
• Romanian:conversief
• Russian:превраще́ние(ru)n(prevraščénije)
• Telugu:మార్పిడి(mārpiḍi)

rugby: a free kick

• Catalan:transformació(ca)f
• Italian:conversione(it)f

American football: extra point

• Finnish:lisäpiste

linguistics: the process whereby a new word is created without changing the form

• Hungarian:szófajváltás(hu),szófaji átcsapás,konverzió(hu),zéró morfémásderiváció
• Romanian:conversiune(ro)f

See also

• penalty
• zero derivation

French

Etymology

FromLatinconversiōnem,fromconvertō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/kɔ̃.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

conversionf(pluralconversions)

1. conversion

Derived terms

• thérapie de conversion

Related terms

• convertir

Further reading

• “conversion”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Anagrams

• convierons