arcane

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You can conjure demons, speak arcane words to them, and the problems just go away.

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requiring secret or mysterious knowledge; "the arcane science of dowsing"

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adjective

requiring secret or mysterious knowledge; "the arcane science of dowsing"

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Core meanings and parts of speech for arcane.

adjective

requiring secret or mysterious knowledge; "the arcane science of dowsing"

Example sentences

You can conjure demons, speak arcane words to them, and the problems just go away.

This inspired me to register, but once again I was thwarted by the US' arcane rule banning gay men from donating.

It would mean I would not be juggling little peculiarities of arcane syntax, such as which sed flags to invoke, or whether to use exec or xargs.

Or you can go online and educate yourself in the arcane technological arts which are guaranteed to get "your foot in the door" of a business.

This was based on too much badly packaged Java software that even if you got it running at all was sluggish, hogging way too much memory and crashed with arcane error messages.

And it will consist of disabling Apache KeepAlive, and then chanting arcane incantations in Latin about caching for the next hour to make people feel like they were really getting their money's worth.

I've been surprised how often a software engineer will describe something technical and arcane, and everyone in the room assumes it must be comprehensible to everyone else.

"The thing programmers do--it isn't using arcane languages, recognizing mysterious error codes, memorizing APIs or libraries.

It's not an arcane methodology that somehow has some magical "making your code better" side-effect...The whole concept of "test driven development" is hocus, and I speak this as someone who writes a lot of tests, and who charges a lot of money for fixing test suites.

LateX is slow, inconsistent and needs to be ran multiple times to give a correct result, it has no API, is not extendable in a sane way, it's source code is so arcane there's books written about it, and if you've read the books the only thing you've learned is that trying to reimplement LateX is a fool's errand.

Airline ticket pricing is not a good general example: The airlines get away with arcane pricing in part because they have successfully outlawed arbitrage by prohibiting the resale or transfer of tickets away from the original buyer, in the name of "security".I'm dubious that this practice is going to work so well for, say, socks.