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AUTOMAGICALLY

Specialty Definition: AUTOMAGICALLY

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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. Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: AUTOMAGICALLY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-g-i-l-l-m-o-t-u-y"

-3 letters: atomically.

-4 letters: magically.

-5 letters: actually, allogamy, alogical, atomical, autogamy, calamity, climatal, coitally, comatula, glaucoma, gliomata, guaiacol, locality, molality, ultimacy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: AUTOMAGICALLY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 55 54 4F 4D 41 47 49 43 41 4C 4C 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    ..-    -    ---    --    .-    --.    ..    -.-.    .-    .-..    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01010101 01010100 01001111 01001101 01000001 01000111 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001100 01001100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#85 &#84 &#79 &#77 &#65 &#71 &#73 &#67 &#65 &#76 &#76 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0055 0054 004F 004D 0041 0047 0049 0043 0041 004C 004C 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35555449473541433735464659

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
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