The term magician can refer to a practitioner of either paranormal magic or illusionism. See list of magicians (illusionists); list of occultists (paranormal)
Magic (gaming) deals with the portrayal of paranormal magic by gamerules.
Magic is a UK radio network and television channel.
Magic (cryptography) refers to the decrypted messages produced by US cryptographers in WWII — it is usually taken to mean '... from Japanese intercepts'. The equivalent in the UK was Ultra, referring to decrypted German traffic.
Magic (software) is a popular and freeVLSI layout tool.
In computer programming, some arcane techniques are referred to as magic. See e.g. deep magic or black magic (Programming). Also, magic numbers are constants used to identify certain file types.
In computer science, magic refers to an entity that gives miraculous results by finding an element from an empty set or type. Often used in formal specifications to leave things unspecified or for later specification.
MAGIC (Telescope) is an acronym for the La Palma telescope.
Magic can also be used meaning inspiration or imagination, or general sentimental "feel" as in "Treasure Planet lacks the magic of the classic Disney films." This meaning of magic is often used by the Walt Disney Company.
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The Map and Geographic Information Center (MAGIC), the University of Connecticut's Map Library, collects maps, atlases, gazetteers, aerial photographs, and digital geospatial data, as well as resources on the history and current state of cartography.
MAGIC has received an original Clark and Tackabury 1859 topographical wall map of Connecticut, of which only a handful of copies are known to exist.
The Connecticut State Library & MAGIC have scanned and georeferenced the mosaiced set of the 1934 Fairchild Aerial Survey.
Manifest and Subtle magic typically refers to magic of legend rather than what many individuals who practise the Occult claim to use as magic, where Manifest magic is magic that immediately appears with a result, and Subtle magic being magic that gradually and intangibly alters the world.
When dealing with magic in terms of "traditions," it is a common misconception for ousiders to treat any religion in which clergy members make amulets and talismans for their congregants as a "tradition of magic," even though what is being named is actually an organized religion with clergy, laity, and an order of liturgical service.
Magical practicioners on the Disc are rare, and often innate (with exceptions - the eight son of an eight son must become a wizard, even if the son is a daughter), and do require some form of training (again, with exceptions - see Sourcery).
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