Retrofit vs Conversion - What's the difference?
retrofit | conversion |
To add or substitute new parts or components to some device, structure etc., that were not previously available; to modernize
To fix an older version (or older versions) as part of the same process of fixing the newest version; to backport
of, relating to, or being a retrofit
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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.
As nouns the difference between retrofit and conversion
is that retrofit is something that has been retrofitted while conversion is the act of converting something or someone.As a verb retrofit
is to add or substitute new parts or components to some device, structure etc., that were not previously available; to modernize.As an adjective retrofit
is of, relating to, or being a retrofit.retrofit
English
(wikipedia retrofit)Verb
(transitive, or, intransitive)- The bug was so bad that we had to retrofit our patch to the last three releases, as well as the newest release.
Adjective
(-)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