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.
  "And she can turn people into stone and do all kinds of horrible things. And she has made a magic so that it is always winter in Narnia—always winter, but it never gets to Christmas."
• 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.
  "I learned a new magic after rescuing the tree fairy."
• Something producing successful and remarkable results, especially when not fully understood; an enchanting quality; exceptional skill.
  "The stringstream class hides a lot of string parsing magic from us at this point."
• (entertainment) The art or practice of performing conjuring tricks and illusions to give the appearance of supernatural phenomena or powers.

adj

• (colloquial) Great; excellent.
  "I cleaned up the flat while you were out. —Really? Magic!"
• (physics) Describing the number of nucleons in a particularly stable isotopic nucleus; 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126, and 184.
• (programming) Being a literal number or string value with no meaning or context, not defined as a constant or variable
  "The code is full of magic numbers and we can't figure out what they mean."

verb

• (transitive) To produce, transform (something), (as if) by magic.
  "He pictured them standing about the dim hallway, magicked into immobility, glazed and mute, one with a hand raised, another bending to set down a bag, and Licht before them, nodding and twitching like a marionette, as usual."