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Conversion

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Conversion or convert may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Business and marketing

  • Conversion funnel, the path a consumer takes through the web toward or near a desired action or conversion
  • Conversion marketing, when a website's visitors take a desired action
  • Converting timber to commercial lumber

Computing, science, and technology

  • Conversion of units, conversion between different units of measurement

Computing and telecommunication

  • CHS conversion of data storage, mapping cylinder/head/sector tuples to linear base address
  • CPS conversion, in computer science, changing the form of continuation-passing
  • Code conversion, in telecommunication, converting from one code to another
  • convert (command), a command-line utility in the Windows NT operating system
  • Convert, a command-line (graphics) image manipulation utility that is part of ImageMagick
  • Data conversion, conversion of computer data from one format to another
    • Transcoding, analog-to-analog or digital-to-digital conversion of one video encoding to another
  • Type conversion, in computer science, changing the data type of a value into another data type

Other sciences

  • Conversion (chemistry), the ratio of selectivity to yield or the change of a molecule
  • Electric vehicle conversion, modification of a conventional vehicle to battery electric
  • Energy conversion, the process of changing one form of energy to another
  • Internal conversion, a radioactive decay process

Economics, finance, and property law

  • Conversion (exchange), the rate at which one currency will be exchanged for another
  • Conversion (law), a voluntary act by one person inconsistent with the ownership rights of another
  • Conversion (options), an options-trading strategy in options arbitrage
  • Economic conversion, a technical, economic and political process for moving from military to civilian markets
  • Equitable conversion, a change in the nature of property so that real property is treated as personal property

Psychiatry

  • Conversion disorder, a condition in which neurological symptoms arise without a definable organic cause
  • Conversion therapy, a pseudo-scientific treatment to turn a homo- or bisexual person into a heterosexual person

Religion

  • Religious conversion, the adoption of a new religious identity
    • Deathbed conversion, a form of religious conversion
    • Forced conversion, forced adoption of a new religious identity
    • Marital conversion, a form of religious conversion
    • Secondary conversion, a form of religious conversion
    • Psychology of religious conversion, psychological aspect of religious conversion
  • Conversion to Buddhism, religious conversion to Buddhism
  • Conversion to Christianity, religious conversion to Christianity
    • Conversion of Paul the Apostle, personal conversion of Paul of Tarsus
    • Conversion of Constantine, personal conversion of emperor Constantine
    • Conversion to Catholicism, religious conversion to the Catholicism
    • Conversion of non-Christian places of worship into churches, conversion into churches
  • Conversion to Hinduism, religious conversion to Hinduism
  • Conversion to Islam, religious conversion to Islam
    • Safavid conversion of Iran to Shia Islam, conversion within Islam in Iran
    • Conversion of non-Islamic places of worship into mosques, conversion into mosques
  • Conversion to Judaism, religious conversion to Judaism
  • Conversion of the Jews, religious conversion of the Jewish people
  • History of Jewish conversion to Christianity, conversion of the Jews to Christianity

Sports

  • Conversion (gridiron football), in American or Canadian football an opportunity to score an additional point following a touchdown
  • Track and field athletics, an estimate of what a performance which has been measured in one system of measurements would have been if it had been measured in the other system
  • Try#Conversion, in rugby, a kick at goal to convert a try into a larger set of points

Other uses

  • Conversion (barn), conversion of old farming barns to commercial or residential use
  • Conversion (logic), reversing the two parts of a categorical or implicational statement
  • Conversion (word formation), the creation of a word from an existing word without any change in form
  • Miniature conversion, altering the appearance of a miniature or model from the standard version

See also

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