Other forms: conversions
In rugby, a conversion is the kick taken after a try for extra points. Missed the conversion, kick the conversion, converted from the touchline.
The kick is taken in line with where the try was scored, which is why players try to touch down near the posts. In American football, the conversion is the attempt after a touchdown. In marketing, conversion is the point at which a visitor becomes a customer, and conversion rate is the central number in the whole business. And in religion, conversion is changing your faith. Note convert, both verb and noun.
1nounconversionThe kick taken after a score for extra points.
“He kicked the conversion between the posts to give his team two more points.”
2nounvisitorThe point at which a visitor becomes a customer.
“Conversion is about two per cent, which is apparently good.”
3nounchangeA change of religion or of use.
“The conversion of the chapel into flats took about three years.”
conversion is a turning or change.
Latin conversio means a turning around, from convertere — con- plus vertere, to turn. Every sense is a turn: the ball turned into points, the visitor turned into a customer, the believer turned to a new faith.
Latin
conversiō
Anglo-Norman
conversion
Middle English
conversion
English, today
conversion
From Middle English conversion, conversioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conversion, from Latin conversiō, from converto.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA