Substitution vs Conversion - What's the difference?
substitution | conversion | Related terms |
the act of substituting or the state of being substituted
a substitute or replacement
(chemistry) (especially in organic chemistry) the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another
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.
In chemistry terms the difference between substitution and conversion
is that substitution is (especially in organic chemistry) the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another while conversion is a chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.As nouns the difference between substitution and conversion
is that substitution is the act of substituting or the state of being substituted while conversion is the act of converting something or someone.substitution
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(en noun)Derived terms
* substitution cipher * substitution reaction * substitution ruleAnagrams
*conversion
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(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