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CHANGEOVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does changeover mean? 

CHANGEOVER (noun)
  The noun CHANGEOVER has 1 sense:

1. an event that results in a transformationplay

  Familiarity information: CHANGEOVER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHANGEOVER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An event that results in a transformation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

changeover; conversion; transition

Hypernyms ("changeover" is a kind of...):

shift; transformation; transmutation (a qualitative change)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "changeover"):

glycogenesis (the conversion of glucose to glycogen when the glucose in the blood exceeds the demand)

isomerisation; isomerization (the conversion of a compound into an isomer of itself)

rectification (the conversion of alternating current to direct current)

Derivation:

change over (change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy)


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