conversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvɜːʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /-ʒ(ə)n/
enpr: kən-vûrʹzhən
ipa: /kənˈvɝʒən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃən
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən
Forms: form: conversions
Etymology: From Middle English conversion, conversioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conversion, from Latin conversiō, from convertō.
Senses: examples: text: His conversion to Christianity
text: The conversion of the database from ASCII to Unicode
text: Artificial conversion of water into ice.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of converting something or someone.
examples: text: Mike Follin […] also programmed the Spectrum version of The Sentinel (97%, Issue 40), and the excellent coin-op conversions Bubble Bobble (90%, Issue 45) and Bionic Commando (92%, Issue 53).
ref: 1988 December, Crash, number 59:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software product converted from one platform to another.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
examples: text: the conversion of a horse
text: Or bring my action of conversion / And trover for my goods.
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: 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.
examples: text: a loft conversion
text: He might even sleep informally: in his vehicle, in a garage-conversion apartment, or beneath a freeway overpass, any of which would be rendered part of the informal landscape by his very act of sleeping.
ref: 2005, Jason Francis MacCannell, Homelessness in Sacramento: A Landscape Geography:
text: An eccentric artist friend of mine lives in a loft conversion that features a lot of unusual brickwork and glass ornamentation.
ref: 2010 March 24, Sandra Rinomato, Realty Check: Real Estate Secrets for First-Time Canadian Home Buyers, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 110:
text: Betternest says a cellar conversion could add around 25 per cent to your home's value.
ref: 2014 July 8, Centaur Media, 20 Ways to Add Space and Value to Your Homes, Centaur Media, page 32:
glosses: Living space in a part of a building that was previously uninhabitable, or the process of constructing such living space.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
hyponyms: anthimeria
shift
shifting
glosses: 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.
glosses: The act of turning round; revolution; rotation.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
examples: text: the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.
hyponyms: kitbashing
qualifier: board games
glosses: Changing a miniature figure into another character, usually by mixing different parts, or molding the model's parts, or doing both.
Hyponyms: type conversion
Derived terms: alpha conversion
anticonversion
autoconversion
backfile conversion
bioconversion
cardioconversion
coconversion
conversional
conversionary
conversion course
conversion disorder
conversionless
conversion mod
conversion rate
conversion therapy
conversion van
Damascene conversion
deathbed conversion
deconversion
downconversion
eta conversion
geroconversion
hydroconversion
immunoconversion
interconversion
internal conversion
laparoconversion
metric conversion
misconversion
multiconversion
narrowing conversion
nonconversion
Pauline conversion
phenoconversion
photoconversion
postconversion
preconversion
pyroconversion
reconversion
retroconversion
seroconversion
stereoconversion
teleconversion
thermoconversion
total conversion
total conversion mod
two-point conversion
type conversion
unconversion
upconversion
widening conversion
Related terms: convert
penalty
zero derivation