Usually means: Control and manipulation of supernatural forces.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word magic:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. magic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. magic: Merriam-Webster
  3. magic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. magic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. magic: Collins English Dictionary
  6. magic: Vocabulary.com
  7. Magic, magic: Wordnik
  8. magic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Magic, magic: Wiktionary
  10. magic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. magic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. magic: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Magic, magic: Dictionary.com
  14. magic (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. magic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Magic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. magic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. magic: Rhymezone
  20. magic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. magic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Magic, magic: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. magic: FreeDictionary.org
  24. magic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. magic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. magic: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. Magic (cryptography): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. magic: ANIME AND MANGA GLOSSARY

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MAGIC: Management Methods, Models, and Theories
  2. MAGIC: Management Dictionary
  3. Magic (ablum), Magic (album), Magic (disambiguation), magic: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MAGIC, magic: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Magic (ablum), Magic (album), Magic (disambiguation), Magic (illusion), Magic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. MAGIC, Magic (ablum), Magic (album), Magic (disambiguation): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. MAGIC: Acronym Finder
  3. Magic: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. magic: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Magic: Easton Bible
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. magic: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. magic: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. magic (!): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Magic: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. M.A.G.I.C, M.A.G.I.C, Magic, the magic: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MAGIC: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them.
noun:  The supernatural forces which are drawn on in such a ritual.
noun:  (rare, countable) A specific ritual or procedure associated with such magic; a spell; a magical ability.
noun:  (gaming, countable) The ability to cast a magic spell.
noun:  Something producing successful and remarkable results, especially when not fully understood; an enchanting quality; exceptional skill.
noun:  (computing, slang) Complicated or esoteric code that is not expected to be generally understood.
noun:  (entertainment) The art or practice of performing conjuring tricks and illusions to give the appearance of supernatural phenomena or powers.
noun:  (countable) One such conjuring trick or illusion.
adjective:  Having supernatural talents, properties or qualities attributed to magic.
adjective:  Producing extraordinary results, as though through the use of magic.
adjective:  Pertaining to conjuring tricks or illusions performed for entertainment etc.
adjective:  (colloquial) Great; excellent.
adjective:  (physics) Describing the number of nucleons in a particularly stable isotopic nucleus; 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126, and 184.
adjective:  (programming) Being a literal number or string value with no meaning or context, not defined as a constant or variable
verb:  (transitive) To produce, transform (something), (as if) by magic.
noun:  An Allied cryptanalysis project, during and prior to World War II, that decrypted Japanese messages.
noun:  Initialism of magnetism-based interaction capture. [A type of nanoproteomics in which a magnetic field is used to induce movement of superparamagnetic nanoparticles in living cells in order to identify molecular targets.]

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