spell ==>
incantation
Any particularly arbitrary or obscure command that one must mutter at a system
to attain a desired result. Not used of passwords or other explicit security
features. Especially used of tricks that are so poorly documented that they must
be learned from a wizard. "This compiler normally locates initialised data in
the data segment, but if you mutter the right incantation they will be forced
into text space."
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