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Definitions

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

Etymologies

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

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Examples

  • They are mostly out of luck, Mr. Lees said, because the company isn't spending much time developing applications that will do all this "automagic" stuff on other phone platforms.

    Bits 2009

  • Hence they are adding automagic fix-it option to thousands of MS Knowledge Base articles so that users can simply click a button to resolve the problem.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • Hence they are adding automagic fix-it option to thousands of MS Knowledge Base articles so that users can simply click a button to resolve the problem.

    slow moving yet good ideas 2009

  • If you have the Wordpress plug-in, you can get your blog to post your del.icio.us links on an automagic basis.

    Warren Ellis 2010

  • Hopefully Bit Torrent made newbie easy with automagic RSS subscription will make up for lack of free Pro video content on the portals.

    The Obligatory 2007 Predictions Post Ben Barren 2007

  • I'm currently hating my cat for the fact she's clogging up our automagic litter box almost daily.

    Make Your Own Kitty Litter At Almost No Cost | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Anyway, This tvRSS/Ted thang which delivers TV shows for you to watch, using the automagic of RSS, is real tempting.

    The Real T3 : TVrss, Torrents + Ted Get Married. Ben Barren 2006

  • Anyway, This tvRSS/Ted thang which delivers TV shows for you to watch, using the automagic of RSS, is real tempting.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Ben Barren 2006

  • Suffice to say there are alot of newscorp newspapers round the world that wouldn't mind some digg automagic.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Ben Barren 2006

  • If I play an album, iTunes or WMPlayer will rip it practically whether I want them to or not–presto, a dozen DRM-free tracks ready-stuffed into the app I use to put them on my MP3 player, with the tech-fearful most likely getting automagic syncing into their iPod and the automagic backup of having the original CD on the shelf.

    Why It Won’t Work « Whatever 2008

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  • dwd commented on the word automagic

    I usually see this as "automagical", and it's usually for clever stuff that some computer program does.

    April 18, 2008

  • dahnielson commented on the word automagic

    Jargon file definition:

    Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically because it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you. See magic. “The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically invokes cc(1) to produce an executable.�?

    This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon and probably much earlier. The word ‘automagic’ occurred in advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late 1940s.

    http://catb.org/jargon/html/A/automagically.html

    April 18, 2008