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Automagical, Automagically
Marketing speak to make an already uncomplicated user input / automated process seem like something more than it is; this term dates back to 1987.
A push of a button and your image is automagically transformed to a needlepoint masterpiece!
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1. adj, a task/activity that is so complex or so boring/uncomfortable that one doesn't feel like explaining it or bothering to look up how it works.
2. when something just happens
I DON'T KNOW WHY YOUR KIDS LOOK LIKE ME! It just happened automagically!
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A common slang word for "automatic". Often used in webblogs and other forms of internet communication.
The phone and the car connect automagically.
Google's corrective spelling feature is automagic.
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Term used by IT professionals to describe technical processes to mouth-breathers with an IQ roughly equal to their shoe size.
Project manager "How were you able to get the database to export to all of our client terminals?"
IT Professional "it happens automagically"
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When doors open mysteriously or objects begin to work on their own.
The doors at Disney's Phillharmagic show opened "automagically" and I was amazed!
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When something predetermined happens that appears to happen by chance.
This lady in the store was about to make a scene, when automagically the manager and security show up.
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(n.) Automating the impossible via processes that seem to involve magic.
(v.) To apply automation to a process or procedure in so brilliant a way as to make it seem if magic was required.
Tim's way of automating things that are impossible has me convinced that he's using automagication.