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To cause to turn; to turn. [Obs.] O, which way shall I first convert myself B. Jonson.

which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. (Logic).

One who converts; one who makes converts.

The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.

Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey.

The state of being convertible; convertibility.

In a convertible manner.

A convert. [Obs.] Shak.

Not turned or changed about. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The quality or state of being inconvertible; not capable of being exchanged for, or converted into, something else; as, the inconvertibility of an irredeemable currency, or of lead, into gold.

Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.

Inconvertibility.

In an inconvertible manner.

Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible.

A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.

To convert again. Milton.

Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.

Not converted or exchanged.

field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.

The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar.