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Black art
(gcide) | Black art \Black" art`\
The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy;
conjuration; magic.
[1913 Webster]
Note: This name was given in the Middle Ages to necromancy,
under the idea that the latter term was derived from
niger black, instead of nekro`s, a dead person, and
mantei`a, divination. --Wright.
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black art
(wn) | black art
n 1: the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or
evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world
[syn: sorcery, black magic, black art, necromancy] |
black art
(foldoc) | black art
A collection of arcane, unpublished, and (by implication)
mostly ad-hoc techniques developed for a particular
application or systems area (compare black magic). VLSI
design and compiler code optimisation were (in their
beginnings) considered classic examples of black art; as
theory developed they became deep magic, and once standard
textbooks had been written, became merely heavy wizardry.
The huge proliferation of formal and informal channels for
spreading around new computer-related technologies during the
last twenty years has made both the term "black art" and what
it describes less common than formerly. See also {voodoo
programming}.
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black art
(jargon) | black art
n.
[common] A collection of arcane, unpublished, and (by implication) mostly
ad-hoc techniques developed for a particular application or systems area
(compare black magic). VLSI design and compiler code optimization were
(in their beginnings) considered classic examples of black art; as theory
developed they became deep magic, and once standard textbooks had been
written, became merely heavy wizardry. The huge proliferation of formal
and informal channels for spreading around new computer-related
technologies during the last twenty years has made both the term black art
and what it describes less common than formerly. See also {voodoo
programming}.
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Black art
(gcide) | Black art \Black" art`\
The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy;
conjuration; magic.
[1913 Webster]
Note: This name was given in the Middle Ages to necromancy,
under the idea that the latter term was derived from
niger black, instead of nekro`s, a dead person, and
mantei`a, divination. --Wright.
[1913 Webster] |
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