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Definition of Conversion
Con`ver´sion | n. | 1. | The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change. | | 2. | 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. | | 3. | (Law) 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. | | 4. | (Logic) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary. | | 5. | (Math.) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions. | | 6. | (Mil.) A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank. | | 7. | (Theol.) 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. |
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