Metonymy in Language

Metonymy is a figure of speech where a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with it.

Examples: "The White House issued a statement" (the building for the administration), "Wall Street is nervous" (the street for the financial industry).

When we interpret Stokes' Theorem through the lens of metonymy, we see that the boundary ∂M stands for the entire manifold M …