synecdoche

1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part, or a specific kind or instance to represent the general category, or the general category to represent a specific kind or instance, or the constituent material to represent the thing made from it.Examples: "Synecdoche the whole for part will take, Or part for whole, just for the metre's sake."; ""Holocaust" can become a tired synecdoche for war crimes in general."; "Perhaps being in a touring band was, to Yorke, a synecdoche for the modern condition: disorientation, alienation, rootlessness, exhaustion, lack of control, occasional derangement, constant motion."countablerhetoricuncountable

2. (rhetoric) The use of this figure of speech.Synonyms: synecdochycountablerhetoricuncountable