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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 metalepsis
 取代作用

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Met·a·lep·sis n.; pl. Metalepses   Rhet. The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 metalepsis
      n : substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another