Conversion vs Migration - What's the difference?
conversion | migration |
The act of converting something or someone.
* Francis Bacon
(computing) A software product converted from one platform to another.
* 1988 , Crash (issue 59, December 1988)
(chemistry) A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
(rugby) A free-kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
(American football) An extra point scored by kicking a field goal after scoring a touchdown.
(marketing) An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
(legal) Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.
* Hudibras
(linguistics) The process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech.
(obsolete) The act of turning round; revolution; rotation.
(logic) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
(math) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.
An instance of moving to live in another place for a while.
Seasonal moving for animals, birds or fishes to breed or find a new home.
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Movement in general.
(computing) Instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one.
As nouns the difference between conversion and migration
is that conversion is conversion while migration is .conversion
English
Noun
(en noun)- His conversion to Islam
- The conversion of the database from ASCII to Unicode
- Artificial conversion of water into ice.
- Mike Follin also programmed the Spectrum version of The Sentinel'' (97%, Issue 40), and the excellent coin-op conversions ''Bubble Bobble'' (90%, Issue 45) and ''Bionic Commando (92%, Issue 53).
- the conversion of a horse
- Or bring my action of conversion / And trover for my goods.
- the conversion''' of equations; the '''conversion of proportions
Antonyms
* deconversionSee also
* penalty ----migration
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus ) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration .}}
- The migration of lead from a can to the food inside it can cause lead poisoning.