magic

  1. mysterious causal force or agent that defies conventional cause and effect and works in unexplained ways.
  2. use of this causal force to change or preserve reality in a desired manner.
  3. the body of knowledge and work applied to fulfill 2, above.
  4. making something from nothing, i.e. creation, changing something into something else, i.e. transformation or preserving things against stimuli for change, using methods of a particular nature to draw on forces not currently understood by science.