"magic e" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "magic es",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "magic e's",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "magic es",
        "2": "magic e's"
      },
      "expansion": "magic e (plural magic es or magic e's)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Education",
          "orig": "en:Education",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Latin letter names",
          "orig": "en:Latin letter names",
          "parents": [
            "Letter names",
            "Letters, symbols, and punctuation",
            "Names",
            "Orthography",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Writing",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Lemmas",
            "Human",
            "Communication"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Orthography",
          "orig": "en:Orthography",
          "parents": [
            "Writing",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Susan M. Greve, Phonics for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 114:",
          "text": "Write the following words in a column on a printing tablet or whiteboard: fat, mat, rat, cap, pan, hid, at, and us. Ask your child to wave his magic wand, add an e with his pencil, and see the new words he makes as he adds the magic e.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A silent e (in certain English words, such as cake and time) that appears to change the pronunciation of the preceding vowel."
      ],
      "id": "en-magic_e-en-noun-BGJ~daWA",
      "links": [
        [
          "education",
          "education"
        ],
        [
          "silent",
          "silent"
        ],
        [
          "e",
          "e"
        ],
        [
          "cake",
          "cake#English"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time#English"
        ],
        [
          "pronunciation",
          "pronunciation"
        ],
        [
          "preceding",
          "preceding"
        ],
        [
          "vowel",
          "vowel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(education) A silent e (in certain English words, such as cake and time) that appears to change the pronunciation of the preceding vowel."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "bossy r"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "education"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "magic e"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "magic es",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "magic e's",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "magic es",
        "2": "magic e's"
      },
      "expansion": "magic e (plural magic es or magic e's)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bossy r"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Education",
        "en:Latin letter names",
        "en:Orthography"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Susan M. Greve, Phonics for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 114:",
          "text": "Write the following words in a column on a printing tablet or whiteboard: fat, mat, rat, cap, pan, hid, at, and us. Ask your child to wave his magic wand, add an e with his pencil, and see the new words he makes as he adds the magic e.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A silent e (in certain English words, such as cake and time) that appears to change the pronunciation of the preceding vowel."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "education",
          "education"
        ],
        [
          "silent",
          "silent"
        ],
        [
          "e",
          "e"
        ],
        [
          "cake",
          "cake#English"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time#English"
        ],
        [
          "pronunciation",
          "pronunciation"
        ],
        [
          "preceding",
          "preceding"
        ],
        [
          "vowel",
          "vowel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(education) A silent e (in certain English words, such as cake and time) that appears to change the pronunciation of the preceding vowel."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "education"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "magic e"
}