Conversion

The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.

The act of changing one's views or course, as in passing from one side, party, or from of religion to another; also, the state of being so changed.

An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse.

The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.

A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions.

A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank.

A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles.

A spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction; a change of heart; a change from the service of the world to the service of God; a change of the ruling disposition of the soul, involving a transformation of the outward life.

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis

act of exchanging one type of money or security for another

interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition