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1. An event that results in a transformation
   - transition, changeover
    
2. A change in the units or form of an expression:
    
3. A successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown
    
4. A spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life
   - rebirth, spiritual rebirth
    
5. (psychiatry) a defence mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis
    
6. A change of religion
   "his conversion to the Catholic faith"
    
7. Interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition
    
8. Act of exchanging one type of money or security for another
    
9. The act of changing from one use, function or purpose to another

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