1. An event that results in a transformation
   "The company underwent a conversion to new management";
   - transition, changeover
    
2. The act of changing from one use, function or purpose to another
   "The conversion of the old factory into luxury apartments revitalized the neighbourhood"
    
3. A change in the units or form of an expression
   "The scientist performed a conversion from Celsius to Fahrenheit"
    
4. Act of exchanging one type of money or security for another
   "The currency conversion was necessary before travelling abroad"
    
5. A change of religion
   "his conversion to the Catholic faith"
    
6. A spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life
   "After his retreat, he experienced a spiritual conversion that changed his outlook on life";
   - rebirth, spiritual rebirth
    
7. Interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition
   "In the sentences 'The night was dark' and 'Dark was the night,' conversion has occurred"
    
8. A successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown
   "His conversion after the touchdown brought the score to 14-7"
    
9. (psychiatry) a defence mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis
   "The patient's sudden inability to speak was diagnosed as a conversion disorder"

Derived forms: conversions

Type of: alteration, calculation, change, computation, defence [Brit, Cdn], defence mechanism [Brit, Cdn], defence reaction [Brit, Cdn], defense [US], defense mechanism [US], defense reaction [US], exchange, figuring, interchange, modification, reckoning, redemption, rhetorical device, salvation, score, shift, transformation, transmutation

Encyclopedia: Conversion