different between conversion vs reformation

English

Etymology

From Middle English conversion, conversioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conversion, from Latin conversi?, from convert?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?v???(?)n/, /-?(?)n/
• (US) enPR: k?n-vûr?zh?n, IPA^(key): /k?n?v???n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)??n, -??(?)??n
• Hyphenation: con?ver?sion

Noun

conversion (countable and uncountable, plural conversions)

1. The act of converting something or someone.
2. (computing) A software product converted from one platform to another.
   • 1988, Crash (issue 59, December 1988)

     Mike Follin […] also programmed the Spectrum version of The Sentinel (97%, Issue 40), and the excellent coin-op conversions Bubble Bobble (90%, Issue 45) and Bionic Commando (92%, Issue 53).

3. (chemistry) A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
4. (rugby) A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
5. (American football) An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.
6. (marketing) An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
7. (law) Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.

   • Or bring my action of conversion / And trover for my goods.

9. (linguistics) The process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech.

   Hyponyms: anthimeria, shift, shifting

10. (obsolete) The act of turning round; revolution; rotation.
11. (logic) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
12. (mathematics) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.

Antonyms

• deconversion

Hyponyms

• type conversion

Derived terms

Related terms

• convert

Translations

See also

• penalty

French

Etymology

From Latin conversi?, from convert?.

Pronunciation

Noun

conversion f (plural conversions)

1. conversion

Related terms

• convertir

Further reading

• “conversion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• convierons

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reformatio, reformationis (“reform, change”), from ref?rm? (“transform, reshape”), from re- + f?rm? (“shape, form”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???f??me??n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???f??me??n?/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

reformation (countable and uncountable, plural reformations)

1. An improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices, etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social, political or religious affairs or in the conduct of persons or operation of organizations.
   • 1590, Sir Philip Sidney, Book 2:

     […] olde men long nusled in corruption, scorning them that would seeke reformation […]

   • ca. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, sc. 2:

     And like bright metal on a sullen ground,

     My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,

     Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes

     Than that which hath no foil to set it off.

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, "Of Innovation"

     It is good also, not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware, that it be the reformation, that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change, that pretendeth the reformation.

   • 1677, John Dryden, The State of Innocence and the Fall of Man, Author's Apology:

     […] satire lashes vice into reformation, and humour represents folly so as to render it ridiculous.

2. (law) Change or correction, by a court in equity, to a written instrument to conform to the original intention of the parties.
   • 1893, Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman, A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence, Chapter XXIX, §507 (footnotes omitted):

     All sorts of legal instruments may be reformed by equity, when the errors, which have been committed in the execution of them, are mutual mistakes or a mistake of one party combined with the fraud of the other. Thus, reformation has been decreed of all kinds of deeds of conveyance, including leases, mortgages, deeds of trust, marriage and family settlements. Likewise, bonds of all kinds, policies of insurance, assignments or release of mortgages, executory contracts for the sale of lands, the indorsement of a note, agreements for the establishment of a highway, military orders. So may, also, judgments and other records be corrected or be reformed.

Translations

Further reading

• Protestant Reformation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

re- +? formation

Pronunciation

Noun

reformation f (plural reformations)

1. re-formation

See also

• réformation