metonymy (rhetoric) The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a re

metonymy (rhetoric) The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/metonymy#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/metonymy#English