CONVERSION
/-ʒ(ə)n/ ► audio Scrabble 15 Words With Friends 19
Definition
- noun an event that results in a transformation.
— synonyms: transition, changeover
- noun a change in the units or form of an expression: "conversion from Fahrenheit to Centigrade".
- noun a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown.
- noun a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life.
— synonyms: rebirth, spiritual_rebirth
- noun (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis.
- noun a change of religion.
- noun interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition.
- noun act of exchanging one type of money or security for another.
- noun the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another.
Examples
- “His conversion to Christianity”
- “the conversion of a horse”
- “the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions”
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