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conversion

  • noun
  • con·ver·sion
  • kən-vûrʹzhən

The act of converting something or someone.

Example

“His conversion to Christianity”

Other meanings

  1. A software product converted from one platform to another.

  2. A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.

Related words

  • cardioconversion
  • coconversion
  • conversional
  • downconversion
  • hydroconversion
  • multiconversion
  • nonconversion
  • phenoconversion
  • pyroconversion
  • reconversion
  • seroconversion
  • teleconversion

Word history

From Latin "conversiō".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “conversion” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.