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conversion, in psychology: see defense mechanism; hysteria.

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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.

(2) Media conversion is changing storage media such as from tape to disk.

(3) Program conversion is changing the programming source language from one dialect to another, or changing application programs to link to a new operating system or DBMS.

(4) Computer system conversion is changing the computer model and peripheral devices.

(5) Information system conversion requires data conversion and either program conversion or the installation of newly purchased or created application programs.

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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

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conversion [kən′vər·zhən]

(computer science)

data conversion

(chemistry)

Change of a compound from one isomeric form to another.

(chemical engineering)

The chemical change from reactants to products in an industrial chemical process. Also known as chemical conversion.

(navigation)

Determination of the rhumb-line direction of one point from another when the initial great-circle direction is known, or vice versa, the difference between the two directions being the conversion angle; used in connection with radio bearings, Consol, Consolan, and in great-circle sailing.

(nuclear physics)

Nuclear transformation of a fertile substance into a fissile substance.

(petroleum engineering)

Treatment of a drilling mud to alter its chemical properties. Also known as breakover.

(physics)

Change in a quantity's numerical value as a result of using a different unit of measurement.

(psychology)

A defense mechanism whereby unconscious emotional conflict is transformed into physical disability, the affected part always having symbolic meaning pertinent to the nature of the conflict.