- a term that specifies a part of something but that refers to the whole of the thing, as, for example, the word hands in “needing more hands to finish the project,” where hands refers to people, and the term set of wheels in “driving a new set of wheels,” where set of wheels refers to an automobile.
- a part of something used to refer to the whole, such as faces meaning people, as in they've seen a lot of faces come and go
