Definitions for converter

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converter con·vert·er

Spelling: [kuh n-vur-ter]

IPA: /kənˈvɜr tər/

Converter is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 269 anagrams from letters in converter (ceenorrtv).

Definitions for converter

noun

1. a person or thing that converts.
2. Electricity. a device that converts alternating current to direct current or vice versa. Compare inverter, synchronous converter.
3. Metallurgy. a chamber or vessel through which an oxidizing blast of air is forced, as in making steel by the Bessemer process.
4. Television. decoder (def 5).
5. Radio and Television. an auxiliary device that permits a receiver to pick up frequencies or channels for which it was not originally designed.
6. Physics. a reactor for converting one kind of fuel into another kind.
7. a person who is engaged in converting textile fabrics, especially cotton cloths, from the raw state into the finished product ready for the market by bleaching, dyeing, etc.
8. Also called converter lens. Photography. an additional lens attached to a lens in use on a camera to alter focal length, mounted in front of a lens to produce a wide-angle effect (wide-angle converter) or between the lens and the camera body to produce a telephoto effect (teleconverter or extender)

Origin of converter

First recorded in 1525-35; convert¹ + -er¹

Examples for converter

Finally, they had taken the decisive step of stealing the converter.

Bending himself had cut them a week before to install the converter.

When the burglars had cut the leads to the converter, everything in the lab had stopped.

They had known about the converter only two weeks, and they had already struck.

His grin was running as high an energy output as that he claimed for the converter.

According to the police, the first converter had been stolen on Friday night.

He led them over to the wall where the converter had been hidden.

Exactly what do you intend to do with the converter if I sell it to you?

The converter won't be worth the stuff it's made of if they try to open it.

The second they started to open the converter, it would begin to fuse.