Converter
noun
A device that changes something into a different form or allows it to be used in a different way.
I bought a power converter for my trip to Europe, so I can use my American devices there.
Often appears as...
- power converter
- currency converter
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A device in a motor vehicle that reduces the toxicity of emissions from the exhaust.
My mechanic said the catalytic converter in my car needs to be replaced.
Often appears as...
- catalytic converter
- diesel converter
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A person or thing that converts something.
John is a converter who turned his passion for books into a successful business.
Often appears as...
- idea converter
- money converter
noun
A piece of software that changes files from one format into another.
I downloaded a file converter to change my video files to a format compatible with my iPad.
Often appears as...
- file converter
- video converter
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A device that changes something into a different form or allows it to be used in a different way.
I bought a power converter for my trip to Europe, so I can use my American devices there.
Often appears as...
- power converter
- currency converter
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A device in a motor vehicle that reduces the toxicity of emissions from the exhaust.
My mechanic said the catalytic converter in my car needs to be replaced.
Often appears as...
- catalytic converter
- diesel converter
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A person or thing that converts something.
John is a converter who turned his passion for books into a successful business.
Often appears as...
- idea converter
- money converter
noun
A piece of software that changes files from one format into another.
I downloaded a file converter to change my video files to a format compatible with my iPad.
Often appears as...
- file converter
- video converter
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Function Change
Emphasizes the ability to use items differently, usually across countries or systems.
The travel plug converter allowed her to charge her laptop in London.
Pro Tip 2/2Power Compatibility
Ensures electronic devices match electrical system of the region.
Without a converter, his hair dryer was useless in Italy.
Pro Tip 1/2Function Change
Emphasizes the ability to use items differently, usually across countries or systems.
The travel plug converter allowed her to charge her laptop in London.
Pro Tip 2/2Power Compatibility
Ensures electronic devices match electrical system of the region.
Without a converter, his hair dryer was useless in Italy.
Pro Tip 1/2Function Change
Emphasizes the ability to use items differently, usually across countries or systems.
The travel plug converter allowed her to charge her laptop in London.
Pro Tip 2/2Power Compatibility
Ensures electronic devices match electrical system of the region.
Without a converter, his hair dryer was useless in Italy.
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The four fish we're...
the next choice is probably going to be tilapia. Tilapia is one of those fish nobody ever heard of 20 years ago. It's actually a very efficient converter of plant protein into animal protein, and it's been a godsend to the third world. It's actually a tremendously sustainable solution, it goes from an egg to an adult in nine months.
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Bill Gross: Great ideas...
but I didn't have anything to contribute. So I tried to figure out what other way could we try to make cost-effective solar electricity. What if we collect the sun with a large reflector -- like I had been thinking about in high school, but maybe with modern technology we could make it cheaper -- concentrate it to a small converter,
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What’s in the air you...
in various trace gas emissions, fundamentally changing the air we all breathe. Many places have already responded with countermeasures. Most cars produced since the 1980′s are equipped with catalytic converters that reduce the emission of carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides.
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Going to the Moon… and...
were going to the moon net and we had other issues in 1970 right right there's fascinations and and unrest on college campuses and all of a sudden people started thinking about Earth's earth right 1972 the catalytic converter is introduced leaded gasses banned DDT
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New insights on poverty...
and he's discussing what sort of cassava they will plant -- the best converter of sunshine to food that man has found. And they are very, very eagerly interested to get advice, and that's to survive in poverty. That's one context. Getting out of poverty.
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How to build synthetic...
This was when I began to appreciate, more than ever, the power of biological teleportation. Naturally, with this in mind, we started to build a biological teleporter. We call it the DBC. That's short for digital-to-biological converter.
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Creating wind energy...
system means I mean we will use one big hydraulic motor one big alternator and one big transformer on ground to Cather many wind converter at the same time in terms of storage the use of a hydraulic system allows the conversion of the
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Todd Kuiken: A...
she's using the arm, and everything goes wrong. There was a computer spook, a broken wire, a converter that sparked. We took out a whole circuit in the hotel and just about put on the fire alarm.
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A prosthetic arm that...
arm and everything goes wrong idea there was a computer spook a broken wire a converter that sparked we took out a whole circuit in the hotel and just about put on the fire alarm and none of
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Economics of climate...
later on went on to provide more air pollution the solution again was an innovation namely the catalytic converter when India was starving in
Video examples
The four fish we're...
the next choice is probably going to be tilapia. Tilapia is one of those fish nobody ever heard of 20 years ago. It's actually a very efficient converter of plant protein into animal protein, and it's been a godsend to the third world. It's actually a tremendously sustainable solution, it goes from an egg to an adult in nine months.
Video examples
Bill Gross: Great ideas...
but I didn't have anything to contribute. So I tried to figure out what other way could we try to make cost-effective solar electricity. What if we collect the sun with a large reflector -- like I had been thinking about in high school, but maybe with modern technology we could make it cheaper -- concentrate it to a small converter,
Video examples
What’s in the air you...
in various trace gas emissions, fundamentally changing the air we all breathe. Many places have already responded with countermeasures. Most cars produced since the 1980′s are equipped with catalytic converters that reduce the emission of carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides.
Video examples
Going to the Moon… and...
were going to the moon net and we had other issues in 1970 right right there's fascinations and and unrest on college campuses and all of a sudden people started thinking about Earth's earth right 1972 the catalytic converter is introduced leaded gasses banned DDT
Video examples
New insights on poverty...
and he's discussing what sort of cassava they will plant -- the best converter of sunshine to food that man has found. And they are very, very eagerly interested to get advice, and that's to survive in poverty. That's one context. Getting out of poverty.
Video examples
How to build synthetic...
This was when I began to appreciate, more than ever, the power of biological teleportation. Naturally, with this in mind, we started to build a biological teleporter. We call it the DBC. That's short for digital-to-biological converter.
Video examples
Creating wind energy...
system means I mean we will use one big hydraulic motor one big alternator and one big transformer on ground to Cather many wind converter at the same time in terms of storage the use of a hydraulic system allows the conversion of the
Video examples
Todd Kuiken: A...
she's using the arm, and everything goes wrong. There was a computer spook, a broken wire, a converter that sparked. We took out a whole circuit in the hotel and just about put on the fire alarm.
Video examples
A prosthetic arm that...
arm and everything goes wrong idea there was a computer spook a broken wire a converter that sparked we took out a whole circuit in the hotel and just about put on the fire alarm and none of
Video examples
Economics of climate...
later on went on to provide more air pollution the solution again was an innovation namely the catalytic converter when India was starving in
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Quote examples
Charles M. Schwab
American Businessman
As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.
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Jack Gilbert
American Poet
You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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Mike Gallagher
American Critic
I'm fired up about TV converter boxes.
Quote examples
Charles M. Schwab
American Businessman
As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.
Quote examples
Jack Gilbert
American Poet
You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
Quote examples
Mike Gallagher
American Critic
I'm fired up about TV converter boxes.
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