01 n. The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.
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The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.“Artificial conversion of water into ice.” — Bacon.“The conversion of the aliment into fat.” — Arbuthnot.
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The act of changing one's views or course, as in passing from one side, party, or from of religion to another; also, the state of being so changed.
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An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse.(Law)“Or bring my action of conversion And trover for my goods.” — Hudibras.
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The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.(Logic)
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A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions.(Math.)
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A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank.(Mil.)
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A spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction; a change of heart; a change from the service of the world to the service of God; a change of the ruling disposition of the soul, involving a transformation of the outward life.(Theol.)“He oft Frequented their assemblies, . . . and to them preached Conversion and repentance, as to souls In prison under judgments imminent.” — Milton.