conversion

Roget category 144

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.7. Change
›› 1.7.1. Simple change

#144. [Gradual change to something different.] Conversion

noun

conversion, reduction, transmutation, resolution, assimilation — evolution, sea change — change of state — assumption — naturalization — transportation — development [Biol.], developing.
[photography] [conversion of currency] conversion of currency, exchange of currency — exchange rate — bureau de change.
chemistry, alchemy — progress, growth, lapse, flux.
passage — transit, transition — transmigration, shifting etc. v. — phase — conjugation — convertibility.
crucible, alembic, caldron, retort.
convert, pervert, renegade, apostate.

verb

be converted into — become, get, wax — come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into — turn out, lapse, shift — run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as — melt, grow, come round to, mature, mellow — assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of — illapse^† — begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change.
convert into, resolve into — make, render — mold, form etc. 240 — remodel, new model, refound^†, reform, reorganize — assimilate to, bring to, reduce to.

adjective

converted into etc. v. — convertible, resolvable into — transitional — naturalized.

adverb

gradually, etc. (slowly) 275 in transitu etc. (transference) 270 [Lat.].

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