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1 definition found From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: magic 1. adj. As yet unexplained, or too complicated to explain; compare { automagically} and (Arthur C.) Clarke's Third Law: ?Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.? ?TTY echoing is controlled by a large number of magic bits.? ?This routine magically computes the parity of an 8-bit byte in three instructions.? 2. adj. Characteristic of something that works although no one really understands why (this is especially called black magic). 3. n. [Stanford] A feature not generally publicized that allows something otherwise impossible, or a feature formerly in that category but now unveiled. 4. n. The ultimate goal of all engineering & development, elegance in the extreme; from the first corollary to Clarke's Third Law: ?Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced?. Parodies playing on these senses of the term abound; some have made their way into serious documentation, as when a MAGIC directive was described in the Control Card Reference for GCOS c.1978. For more about hackish ?magic?, see Appendix A. Compare black magic, wizardly, deep magic, {heavy wizardry}.