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  1. MAGIC
    acronym: Model of Acidification of Groundwater in Catchment
    Found on http://cdiac.ornl.gov/pns/acronyms.html#

  2. Magic
    Illusionist entertainment such as sawing ladies in half, pulling rabbits out of hats and other slight-of-hand tricks. Must be distinguished from 'Magick' which involves the manipulation of natural energies rather than physical movements.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  3. Magic
    (a) Practices that aim to use paranormal or spiritual means to influence events. See also white magic, black magic.
    (b) The art of conjuring.
    Found on http://www.psychics.co.uk/define/

  4. Magic
    (a) Practices that aim to use paranormal or spiritual means to influence events. See also white magic, black magic. (b) The art of conjuring.
    Found on http://www.psychicscience.org/paraglos.x

  5. Magic
    the science of bringing into visible action forces ordinarily hidden. The ancients recognized three sorts: Theurgia, or White Magic; Goetia, or Black Magic; and Natural Magic. Theurgia had to do with the powers of the soul, the philosopher's stone, the magic which makes of man a God. Goetia was sorc...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20207

  6. magic
    [n] - any art that invokes supernatural powers
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  7. Magic
    Code name for US code breaking operations against the Japanese
    Found on http://www.secondworldwar.co.uk/glossm.h

  8. magic
    Art of controlling the forces of nature by supernatural means such as charms and ritual. The central ideas are that like produces like (sympathetic magic) and that influence carries by contagion or...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  9. magic
    hybrid T provided with internal matching elements making it reflectionless for an incident wave at any port when the remaining ports have matched terminations Category: Electrical engineering and energy • a vacuum tube employing a beam of electrons for visually indicating the comparative...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  10. Magic
    Mag'ic noun [ Middle English magique , Latin magice , Greek ... (sc. ...), from .... See Magic , adjective , and Magi .] A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effect...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/5

  11. magic
    A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, inca...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  12. magic
    thaumaturgy noun any art that invokes supernatural powers
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  13. Magic
    • (a.) Alt. of Magical • (a.) A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuratio...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  14. Magic
    (from the article `rocket and missile system`) ...fighters, for instance, carried both heat-seeking Sidewinders and radar-homing Sparrows. Meanwhile, the Europeans developed such infrared-homing ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/m/10

  15. magic
    a concept used to describe a mode of rationality or way of thinking that looks to invisible forces to influence events, effect change in material ... [53 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/m/10

  16. MAGIC
    An early system on the Midac computer. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. [Jargon File] (1995-01-25)
    Found on http://foldoc.org/MAGIC

  17. magic
    1. As yet unexplained, or too complicated to explain; compare automagically and (Arthur C.) Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. TTY echoing is controlled by a large number of magic bits. 'This routine magically computes the parity of an 8-bit b...
    Found on http://foldoc.org/magic

  18. Magic
    Magic is British slang for excellent.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  19. Magic
    Magic is British slang for excellent.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  20. MAGIC
    The art of entertaining an audience by performing illusions that baffle and amaze, often by giving the impression that something impossible has been achieved, almost as if the performer had magic or supernatural powers.
    Found on http://www.glossarycentral.com/magic/mag

  21. magic
    magic, in religion and superstition, the practice of manipulating and controlling the course of nature by preternatural means. Magic is based upon the belief that the universe is populated by unseen forces or spirits that permeate all things. Because these supernatural forces are thought to govern t...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0

  22. magic
    magic, in entertainment, the seeming manipulation and supernatural control of the natural world for the amusement and amazement of an audience. Entertainment magic can be divided into four main categories: sleight of hand, also known as prestidigitation or close-up magic, consisting of tricks done c...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A09305

  23. Magic
    Magic is a horror film starring Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Ed Lauter, and David Ogden Stiers in a story based on the book by William Goldman about a ventriloquist being at the mercy of his vicious, murderous dummy who develops a mind of his own and wishes to control his master. ...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  24. magic
    Art of controlling the forces of nature by supernatural means such as charms and ritual. The central ideas are that like produces like (sympathetic magic) and that influence carries by contagion or association; for example, by the former principle an enemy could be destroyed through an effigy, and by the latter principle through personal items ...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  25. Magic
    (paranormal) `Magic` is the claimed art of manipulating aspects of reality either by supernatural means or through knowledge of occult laws unknown to science. It is in contrast to science, in that science does not accept anything not subject to either direct or indirect observation, and subj...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic



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