Cantrip may refer to—

• A magical spell of any kind, or one which reads the same forwards and backwards.

In the novel, "When Darkness Falls," by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory, a 'cantrip' is used to describe a short (one or two words, or one flick of a magic wand) spell or incantation that triggers a series of spells, or acts as a trigger that completes a much more complicated spell (which would ordinarily take hours or days of chanting and conjuring to complete). It acts as a magical shortcut or abbreviation.

• A kind of spell in the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game.
• Spells in the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game that allow you to draw a card as part of their effect.
• Spells in the MMORPG Asheron's Call whose effects can stack with spells of a similar nature.
• CANtrip Controller Area Network analysis and diagnostics tool made by SECONS

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Cantrip". Image Credit.

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