http://wordie.org/words/automagic Comments for the word 'Automagic' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/automagic#comments Jargon file definition:<br /><br />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.”<br /><br />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.<br /><br />http://catb.org/jargon/html/A/automagically.html Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:05:27 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/automagic#comments http://wordie.org/words/automagic#comments I usually see this as "automagical", and it's usually for clever stuff that some computer program does. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:15:39 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/automagic#comments