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conversion, in psychology: see defense mechanism defense mechanism, in psychoanalysis, any of a variety of unconscious personality reactions which the ego uses to protect the conscious mind from threatening feelings and perceptions. ..... Click the link for more information. ; hysteria hysteria (hĭstĕr`ēə) ..... Click the link for more information. . conversion(1) Data conversion is changing data from one file or database format to another. It may also require code conversion between ASCII and EBCDIC. conversion 1. a change to another attitude or belief, as in a change of religion 2. Maths a change in the units or form of a number or expression 3. Logic a form of inference by which one proposition is obtained as the converse of another proposition 4. Law a. unauthorized dealing with or the assumption of rights of ownership to another's personal property b. the changing of real property into personalty or personalty into realty 5. Rugby a score made after a try by kicking the ball over the crossbar from a place kick 6. Physics a change of fertile material to fissile material in a reactor 7. a. an alteration to a car engine to improve its performance b. (as modifier): a conversion kit 8. NZ the unauthorized appropriation of a motor vehicle How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I in- dulged a faint hope that his conversion would lead him to emancipate his slaves, and that, if he did not do this, it would, at any rate, make him more kind and humane. , "Blacas is not yet convinced; let us proceed, therefore, to the usurper's conversion. This prince, besides his ill will to Sultan Segued, which was kept up by some malcontents among the Abyssin nobility, who, provoked at the conversion of their master, were plotting a revolt, entertained an inveterate hatred against the Portuguese for the death of his grandfather, who had been killed many years before, which he swore the blood of the Jesuits should repay. |
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