conversion
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
conversion/kənˈvɜːʃn/
▶noun
- 1 the process of converting or of being converted.
■ Brit. a building that has been converted to a new purpose.
■ Law the changing of real property into personalty, or of joint into separate property, or vice versa.
- 2 Rugby a successful kick at goal after a try.
■ American Football an act of converting a touchdown or a down.
- 3 Psychiatry the manifestation of a mental disturbance as a physical disorder or disease.
- 4 Law the action of wrongfully dealing with goods in a manner inconsistent with the owner's rights.
'conversion' also found in these Oxford entries:
assembly
- bioconversion
- calcify
- charge
- condensation
- contraposition
- conversion factor
- Damascene
- diagenesis
- digitation
- dissipate
- entropy
- evangelical
- exchange rate
- hysteria
- light
- marketization
- metanoia
- pair production
- sclerotized
- social gospel
- vinification
