Synecdoche (; from Greek synekdoche (συνεκδοχή), meaning "simultaneous understanding")'s a figure of speech in which: a term denoting a part of something's used to refer to the whole thing (Pars pro toto), or a term denoting a thing (a "whole")'s used to refer to part of it (Totum pro parte), or a term denoting a specific class of thing's used to refer to a larger, more general class, or a term denoting a general class of thing's used to refer t… (More on Synecdoche)