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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In petrography, a term introduced by Bonney (1886) to signify recombination or a change, such as the conversion of a mud into a mass of quartz with mica and other silicates.
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Examples
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I am sure that a metacrisis is something that has happened before ... so it can probably be set right in some fashion.
BBC Radio Featuring: RTD, JG, EL & DT...and other DW Tidbits rabid1st 2009
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Haque addressed some of this as he talked about a "metacrisis" in our "zombieconomy" in which we have understated cost and overstated value.
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I'm saying that Ten works it out ... just about the time that Donna is going on about how great her brain is ... and the only reason HE works it out ahead of the others is that he's been thinking of creating a metacrisis of his very own for a time.
Humperdinck: "Now, if we only had a wheelbarrow..." rabid1st 2009
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We see no evidence that the Doctor and Ten 2 are surprised by the "instantaneous biologicial metacrisis."
Doctor Who Spoiler Photo Circulating...A Pony Discussion, of course! rabid1st 2009
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This is my mind fog talking, but are you suggesting the metacrisis is incomplete, and completing it would kill Donna?
The Essence of the Humperdinck! rabid1st 2009
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“She was dying,” Rose says, nodding, From the metacrisis.
New Doctor/Rose Ficlet: STRAWBERRIES rabid1st 2009
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If only we had a clearer idea how metacrisis worked, too.
Humperdinck: "Now, if we only had a wheelbarrow..." rabid1st 2009
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Wouldn't it make sense to arrange your own biological metacrisis ... using Lucy Saxon in the same way that Donna was used ... to create The Master 3?
Humperdinck: "Now, if we only had a wheelbarrow..." rabid1st 2009
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Or maybe he had some real use for it ... like creating a controled, rather than instantaneous, biological metacrisis.
Humperdinck: "Now, if we only had a wheelbarrow..." rabid1st 2009
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But what if, among Time Lords, reproduction is like a metacrisis?
Doctor Who Spoiler Photo Circulating...A Pony Discussion, of course! rabid1st 2009
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