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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that converts, especially.
  • noun A furnace in which pig iron is converted into steel by the Bessemer process.
  • noun A machine that converts electric current from one kind to another.
  • noun An electronic device that converts one frequency of a radio signal to another.
  • noun A device that converts data from one code to another.
  • noun One that is employed in converting raw products into finished products.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In electricity, an apparatus for changing electric power into a different form by mechanical motion.
  • noun One who converts; one who makes converts.
  • noun A vessel in which metals or other materials are changed or converted from one shape or condition to another.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who converts; one who makes converts.
  • noun (Steel Manuf.) 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person or thing that converts.
  • noun 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.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a device for changing one substance or form or state into another

Etymologies

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to convert + -er

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