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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>automagically</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="autoconfiscate.html" title="autoconfiscate"/><link rel="next" href="avatar.html" title="avatar"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">automagically</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="autoconfiscate.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="avatar.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="automagically"/><dt xmlns="" id="automagically"><b>automagically</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/aw·toh·maj´i·klee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adv.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically because
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it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the
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speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you. See
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<a href="../M/magic.html"><i class="glossterm">magic</i></a>. “<span class="quote">The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C,
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then automagically invokes
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">cc</span>(1)</span>
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to produce an executable.</span>”</p><p>This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon
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and probably much earlier. The word ‘automagic’ occurred in
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advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late
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