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CONVERSION

Volume 3 · 77 words · 1778 Edition

in a moral sense, implies a repentance for a temper and conduct unworthy our nature, and unbecoming our obligations to its Author, and a resolution to act a wiser and a better part for the future.

in war, a military motion whereby the front of a battalion is turned where the flank was, in case the battalion is attacked in the flank.

CONVERSION of Equations, the same with reduction of equations by multiplication. See ALGEBRA, n° 17.