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synecdochic

  • a word derived from synecdoche.
    synecdoche
    noun
    a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.

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Then there’s a large Excel document that describes the entire plot — each scene, each episode, each sequence — in a synecdochic fashion, like fractals.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 23, 2019

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