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the act or process of converting; state of being converted.

a change in character, form, or function.

a change from one religion, political belief, viewpoint, etc., to another.

a thoroughgoing spiritual change that involves repentance and a turn toward God or right living.

a change of attitude, emotion, or viewpoint from one of indifference, disbelief, or antagonism to one of acceptance, faith, or enthusiastic support, especially such a change in a person's religion.

a physical transformation from one material or state to another.

the act of obtaining equivalent value, as of money or units of measurement, in an exchange or calculation.

a physical, structural, or design change or transformation from one state or condition to another, especially to effect a change in function.

a substitution of one component for another so as to effect a change.

Mathematics.��a change in the form or units of an expression.

Logic.��the transposition of the subject and predicate of a proposition, as “No good man is unhappy” becomes by conversion “No unhappy man is good.”

Law.��

1. unauthorized assumption and exercise of rights of ownership over personal property belonging to another.

2. a change from realty into personalty, or vice versa, as in the sale or purchase of land or the mining of coal.

Football.��a score made on a try for a point after touchdown by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the bar between the goalposts or by completing a pass in or running the ball into the end zone.

Psychoanalysis.��the process by which a repressed psychic event, idea, feeling, memory, or impulse is represented by a bodily change or symptom.

Physics.��the production of radioactive material in a process in which one nuclear fuel is converted into another by the capture of neutrons.

Digital Technology.��a performance metric for a website that counts the percentage of visitors that engage in the intended purpose of the site, as making a purchase or signing a petition.

Computers.��

1. Also called data conversion.��the act or process of transferring data from one format into another.

2. Also called media conversion.��the act of transferring or copying stored data from one storage medium to another.

3. porting.

4. Also called system conversion.��the change from an existing computer system to a new computer system.

5. the process of changing the base that a number or numbers are written in.

the transformation of material from a form suitable for printing by one process to a form suitable for another process.