alchemy
- Noun. (obsolete, uncountable) The ancient search for a universal panacea, and of the philosopher's stone, that eventually developed into chemistry.
- Noun. (countable) The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.
- Noun. (computing, slang) Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.
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