charm

Meanings

Noun

• An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
• The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration.
• A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
• A quantum number of hadrons determined by the number of charm quarks and antiquarks.
• A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the instantaneous rate of change of delta with respect to time.
• The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
• A flock, group (especially of finches).

Verb

• To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
• To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence.
• To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
• To make music upon.
• To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.

Origin

• From Middle English charme, from Old French charme ("chant, magic spell"), from Latin carmen ("song, incantation").
• Variant of chirm, from Middle English chirme, from Old English cierm ("cry, alarm"), from Proto-Germanic *karmiz.