conversion

noun

1. 1

   a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life

2. 2

   a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown

3. 3

   the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another

4. 4

   act of exchanging one type of money or security for another

5. 5

   a change in the units or form of an expression: "conversion from Fahrenheit to Centigrade"

6. 6

   interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition

7. 7

   a change of religion

   his conversion to the Catholic faith

8. 8

   an event that results in a transformation

9. 9

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