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.