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Automagically (adv) <jargon> /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."


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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