Usually means: Expression using parts to signify whole.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (merismus)

noun:  (rhetoric) A metonymic term to describe a type of synecdoche in which two parts of a thing, perhaps contrasting or complementary parts, are made to stand for the whole.

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