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automagically: /aw·toh·maj´i·klee/, adv. |
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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.�? |
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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. |
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From the [[Jargon File]] |
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[[Category:Jargon]] |
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Latest revision as of 15:02, 1 November 2007
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