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automagically
(foldoc) | automagically
/aw-toh-maj'i-klee/ or /aw-toh-maj'i-k*l-ee/
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.
E.g. "The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically
invokes cc to produce an executable."
See magic.
[Jargon File]
(2001-05-18)
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automagically
(jargon) | automagically
/aw·toh·maj'i·klee/, adv.
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.
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