1 used for describing something with a special and exciting quality: --
2 of, relating to, or having special powers to make things happen that would usually be impossible: --
3 having a special, exciting quality that makes something or someone different and better than others: --
Additional evidence for a "magical number 4" in visual processing comes from studies of infants, normal adults, and neuropsychological syndromes.
Mathematical models, presuming unitary magical number limitations typical for college students, generate the published data accurately (mean error 2.7%).
With a few laudable exceptions, they are much less interested in the broader ' magical universe ', to which the early modern trials are valuable testimony.
We want magical cures for our problems, and such desires create a universal demand for what science can provide.
Through this we maintain our ability to understand human processes and to keep them rational, as opposed to magical and subpoenaed by hierarchy.
She placed the keeping of inalienable objects, but also immaterial matters like stories, magical sayings and myths, at the heart of the exchange system.
Contact with the magical item, in this case, consumption of the fruit, bestows upon the consumer the named ability, and their 'eyes were opened'.
They feature marvellous devices, such as mysterious voices, oracles, 'enchanted' wind ensembles, unearthly choruses, spirits, magical spells and scenes with magical instruments.
