Did you perchance mean automatic?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A process carried out automatically in such a clever way that the result appears to be magic.
Etymologies
- Blend of automatic and magic; from the principle (often called Clarke's third law) that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. (Wiktionary)
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.”
“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.”
“If you have the Wordpress plug-in, you can get your blog to post your del.icio.us links on an automagic basis.”
“Hopefully Bit Torrent made newbie easy with automagic RSS subscription will make up for lack of free Pro video content on the portals.”
“I'm currently hating my cat for the fact she's clogging up our automagic litter box almost daily.”
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“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.”
“Anyway, This tvRSS/Ted thang which delivers TV shows for you to watch, using the automagic of RSS, is real tempting.”
“Suffice to say there are alot of newscorp newspapers round the world that wouldn't mind some digg automagic.”
“I loooooooooove the green and black. and yes, it indeed cries out for a coordinating jacket. wiping off the drool. adding this to my automagic ebay search list. yummmm”
“This is definitely a slippery science, constantly skirting around link abuse, automagic link spammers, etc.”
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longer new words in Scrabble
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from Collins dictionaries.acathisia, acathisias, acentrics, aciclovir, aciclovirs, acidically, acinetobacter, acinetobacters, acrophobics, aculeates, advertizings, aerodigestive and 1320 more...
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If it's magic...
magic, Magic, magic wand, magic carpet, magician, Magic Johnson, magic hour, magical realism, Magic: The Gathering, Magic Kingdom, Magic Eye, Magic Bus and 94 more...
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dahnielson 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 Apr 18, 2008
dwd I usually see this as "automagical", and it's usually for clever stuff that some computer program does. Apr 18, 2008