converter

English

Etymology

convert + -er

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɜː(r)tə(r)

Noun

converter (plural converters)

  1. A person or thing that converts.
  2. A patient with a certain condition that subsequently develops into another condition.
  3. A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for converter in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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Verb

converter (first-person singular present indicative converto, past participle convertido)

  1. to convert (all senses); to change
  2. to transform

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