What is "metafunctions"

Usage examples of "metafunctions".

If Tanu testing shows that an arriving time-traveler has significant latent metafunctions, the lucky person is given a silver torc.

She had succeeded in concealing her strong latent metafunctions from Epone, escaping the torc at least temporarily.

Aiken and Raimo and Sukey would learn how to use the metafunctions made newly operant by their silver torcs.

His silver torc, instead of merely freeing his metafunctions, had acted as a trigger to a psychic avalanche.

But even us grays—without getting any metafunctions to speak of—gain something fantastic through this torc.

I’ve got stupendous metafunctions, of course, and I’m a wiz in battle.

No, except for Brede (who doesn’t really count), we didn’t understand how the torcs worked to make our own metafunctions operant, and we didn’t try very hard to understand the powers themselves.

They were bidding their personal services to the Crown—nominal owner of all exceptional time-travelers—offering their metafunctions, their material wealth, their torced and untorced human subjects.

My being trapped here in the Pliocene, separated forever from the Unity, with my metafunctions restored and monsters nipping at my heels, is a cosmic joke.

Since the information he gave Felice was basically the truth (and since he was marvelously adept at concealing the seams that joined truth to semitruth and falsehood), the girl’s redactive power, weakest of her five metafunctions, could find no fault with his recital.

This guy is not only loaded with metafunctions, but he’s also in a high position.

Our son the Battlemaster has metafunctions to burn and more panache than me and my Awful Father and my Unspeakable Grandsire all rolled up in one.

The reigning champions also had the option of dueling contenders with both weapons and metafunctions at any time during the High Melee.

Creativity, of all the metafunctions, is most vulnerable to trauma and sorrow.

We don't understand why you didn't regain your metafunctions together with your other mental faculties, but given time and work, you may very well recover.