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n. 1. a. The act of converting. b. The state of being converted. 2. A change in which one adopts a new religion, faith, or belief. 3. Something that is changed from one use, function, or purpose to another. 4. Law The unlawful appropriation of another's property. 5. The exchange of one type of security or currency for another. 6. Logic The interchange of the subject and predicate of a proposition. 7. Football An extra point or points scored after a touchdown, as by kicking the ball through the uprights or by advancing the ball into the end zone from the two-yard line or a similar short distance. 8. Psychiatry The development of physical symptoms, such as paralysis or sensory deficits, as a response to stress, conflict, or trauma. 9. The expression of a quantity in alternative units, as of length or weight. [Middle English conversioun, religious conversion, from Old French conversion, from Latin conversiō, conversiōn-, a turning around, from conversus, past participle of convertere, to turn around; see CONVERT.] con·version·al, con·version·ar′y (-zhə-nĕr′ē, -shə-) adj. |
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