Definition of "metafunction" []

• A function which calls all the other functions of a certain program; the only function that can be called independently. (noun)
• A construct that performs a mapping between entities at compile time. (noun)
• A group of grammatical systems that make meanings of a related kind. (noun)

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• "But you and your genes for operant metafunction might just as easily be a potential lethal factor-as the Host of Nontusvel perceives you."
• "They never evolved into operant metafunction, as the Firvulag did; instead they developed the mental amplifier you know as the golden torc, which made their latent metafunctions imperfectly operant and gave them a crude but satisfying simulacrum of psychounity-the "mind-family" relationship that you have observed among our people and among the golds and silvers and grays of this Many-Colored Land ..."
• "You harness it with your creative metafunction; mold, compress, convert."