0 an expression, often found in literature, that describes a person or object by referring to something that is considered to have similar characteristics to that person or object:
1 an expression that describes a person or object by referring to something that is considered to possess similar characteristics:
The geographical metaphor is particularly useful when discussing the internal structure of a program, and hence it tends to predominate in more technical texts.
We have applied the same idea to teaching music by arguing for body movement as a physical metaphor between musical activities and conceptual thinking.
There are phenomena that occur only at certain scales, and which thereby are poor models or metaphors for other levels.
One method of making this prior knowledge explicit is to examine the metaphors preservice teachers use during their practice teaching.
This property alone has fundamental consequences for the solutions that we expect from any model that is based on that metaphor.
Ghosts may seem to elude serious scholars except as metaphor or atmosphere, but there is a surprising abundance of books about them.
In this magnum opus he used biological metaphors to analyse the functioning of a national economic system and elaborate a detailed typology of socio-economic phenomena.
With respect to the problem of invisibility, the crystal metaphor offers an elegant solution.