Conversion

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Conversion or convert may refer to:

Economy and finance

Conversion (exchange), the rate at which one currency will be exchanged for 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

Conversion (law), a voluntary act by one person inconsistent with the ownership rights of another
Equitable conversion, a change in the nature of property so that real property is treated as personal property

Conversion (chemistry), the ratio of selectivity to yield or the change of a molecule
Conversion of units, conversion between different units of measurement
Electric vehicle conversion, modification of a conventional vehicle to battery electric
Energy conversion, the process of changing one form of energy to another

Conversion (word formation), the creation of a word from an existing word without any change in form
Conversion of scripts, procedure of replacing text written in one writing system with characters of another writing system

CHS conversion, mapping cylinder/head/sector tuples to linear base address
Data conversion, conversion of computer data from one format to another
Type conversion, in computer science, changing an entity of one data type into another
convert (command), a command-line utility in the Windows NT operating system

Conversion (gridiron football), in American or Canadian football an opportunity to score an addition point following a touchdown
- Two-point conversion, a gridiron football conversion to score two points
Conversion (rugby), in rugby, a kick at goal to convert a try into a larger set of points
Athletics (Track & Field), 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.

Conversion (marketing), the percentage of unique visitors to a website who take a desired action
Conversion funnel, the track a consumer takes through an Internet advertising or search system

Code conversion, in telecommunication converting from one code to another
Transcoding, analog-to-analog or digital-to-digital conversion of one video encoding to another

Conversion (barn), conversion of old farming barns to commercial or residential use
Conversion (logic), in logic, reversing the two parts of a categorical or implicational statement
Religious conversion, the adoption of a new religious identity
Conversion disorder, in psychiatry, a condition in which neurological symptoms arise without a definable organic cause
Conversion therapy, pseudo-scientific treatments to eliminate or diminish same-sex desires and behaviors
Miniature conversion, altering the appearance of a miniature or model from the standard version
Converting timber to commercial lumber