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2 definitions 
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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) :

  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.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) :

  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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