Conversion - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a change in the units or form of an expression:
- a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life (syn: rebirth)
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis
- a change of religion
- act of exchanging one type of money or security for another
- the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another
Extra examples
The company is undergoing a conversion to a new computer system.
They have suggested conversion of the old school into apartments.
Conversion to gas heating will continue over the next few years.
He is thinking about conversion to Buddhism.
The warehouse was undergoing conversion into apartments.
The British conversion to the metric system took place in the 1970s.
Newman's conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism
The conversion of the aliment into fat is not properly nutrition.
They witnessed the conversion of the thorny wilderness into the fertile meadow.
The conversion of the thorny wilderness into the fertile meadow.
...the biography of a debauchee who underwent a late-life religious conversion and became a monk...
...the poet's works became increasingly didactic after his religious conversion...
...a strict sect that believes that fellowship with gentiles should exist only for the purposes of conversion...
Historic buildings can have a new lease of life through conversion.
Our neighbours have just done a loft conversion (=changed the loft into bedrooms).
Word forms
singular: conversion
plural: conversions
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