Conversion

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Conversion or convert may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

"Conversion" (Doctor Who audio), an episode of the audio drama Cyberman
"Conversion" (Stargate Atlantis), an episode of the television series
"The Conversion" (The Outer Limits), a 1995 episode of the television series
The Convert, a 2023 film produced by Jump Film & Television and Brouhaha Entertainment
"Chapter 19: The Convert", an episode of the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian

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
- Two-point conversion, a gridiron football conversion to score two points
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