Magic-realism
noun
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a style of painting and literature in which fantastic or imaginary and often unsettling images or events are depicted in a sharply detailed, realistic manner.
noun
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a style of painting or writing that depicts images or scenes of surreal fantasy in a representational or realistic way
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electronics, humour A substance trapped inside integrated circuit packages that enables them to function (also called “blue smoke”; this is similar to the archaic “phlogiston” hypothesis about combustion). Its existence is demonstrated by what happens when a chip burns up – the magic smoke gets let out, so it doesn’t work any more. See Electing […]
- Magic-square
noun 1. a square containing integers arranged in an equal number of rows and columns so that the sum of the integers in any row, column, or diagonal is the same. noun 1. a square array of rows of integers arranged so that the sum of the integers is the same when taken vertically, horizontally, […]
- Magic switch story
Some years ago, I was snooping around in the cabinets that housed the MIT AI Lab’s PDP-10, and noticed a little switch glued to the frame of one cabinet. It was obviously a homebrew job, added by one of the lab’s hardware hackers (no-one knows who). You don’t touch an unknown switch on a computer […]
- Magic wand
noun 1. a thin rod brandished by a conjuror in peforming magic tricks 2. any seemingly magical solution to a difficult problem: there is no magic wand for us to fix it
- Magic word
noun permission; that which permits an event Word Origin from a gag on Groucho Marx’s “You Bet Your Life Show” Usage Note in the phrase ‘(say) the magic word’