The action of conversion is a common law legal proceeding for damages by an owner of property against a defendant who came across the property and who, rather than return the property, converted that property to his own use or retained possession of the property or otherwise interfered with the property The innocence of the defendant who took the property is not an issue It is the conversion that gives rise to the cause of action This common law action replaced the old action of trover by English law dated 1852 Compare with detinue
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis
a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another act of exchanging one type of money or security for another a change in the units or form of an expression: "conversion from Fahrenheit to Centigrade"
The right of investors to convert preferred stock or convertible debt into common stock at a specified conversion rate or price
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
Any first-time renewal, or the process of converting nonpaid subscribers to paid subscribers (This term is also used online to express the conversion of clicks to orders )
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
an event that results in a transformation (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis
a change in the units or form of an expression: "conversion from Fahrenheit to Centigrade"
A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions
An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be. This can be a purchase or a download of a whitepaper
The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary
A code native to the ACCESS and PICK/BASIC languages which perform a "reversible mapping," according to the new definition of SMA More practically, these are the special codes which alter or change the data from one format to another For example, a money amount may be "externally converted" so that it displays the dollar sign, commas, and decimal point