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magic circle

magic circle noun: a circle marked on the ground by a practitioner of magic, used as magical protection or to form a magical area.

Noun

magic circle (plural magic circles)

  1. A circle marked on the ground by a practitioner of magic, used as magical protection or to form a magical area.
    • Witches are often accused of the same sort of Devil worship as the Black Magic followers. They claim that their only practice which probably would not meet with popular approval is dancing naked round a magic circle[.]1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 77
  2. In traditional cultures, a circle drawn on the ground marking out a sacred, protected, or ritually charged space.
    • On moonlit nights they stood within the Magic Circle and gazed on the glory of the moon, and trembled to the answers that came in the swish of wing as bat-like birds sped by.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 165
  3. An arrangement of natural numbers on circles such that the sum of the numbers on each circle and the sum of numbers on diameter are identical.
  4. The imagined space, separate from the real world, in which players in a virtual reality system experience immersion.

Proper noun capitalized: Magic Circle

the Magic Circle

  1. A British organization dedicated to promoting and advancing the art of stage magic.
  2. (UK, informal) Collectively, the five most prestigious London-headquartered multinational law firms: Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, and Slaughter and May.

Forms of magic circle

pluralmagic circles

Questions about magic circle

What does magic circle mean?
Magic circle means a circle marked on the ground by a practitioner of magic, used as magical protection or to form a magical area.
What part of speech is magic circle?
Magic circle can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of magic circle?
The plural of magic circle is magic circles.

Words near magic circle in the dictionary

  1. magic boxes
  2. magic bullet
  3. magic bullets
  4. magic carpet
  5. magic carpets
  6. magic circle
  7. magic circles
  8. magic constant
  9. magic constants
  10. magic cookie
  11. magic cookies

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