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automagic

noun

Etymology

Blend of automatic + magic; from the principle (often called Clarke's third law) that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  1. derived from *megʰ-✻
  2. derived from μαγικός
  3. derived from magicus
  4. derived from magique
  5. inherited from magik,magyk
  6. compounded as automagic — “automatic + magic”

Definitions

  1. A process carried out automatically in such a clever way that the result appears to be…

    A process carried out automatically in such a clever way that the result appears to be magic.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for automagic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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