Categories: Comparisons
An example of a metaphor in popular science writing:
"Throughout the Milky Way there is a diffuse gas. A gas, you will remember is a swarm of separate atoms and simple molecules."
Fred Hoyle (1960) The Nature of the Universe (Revised ed.), 1960
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Many examples of science similes are listed in 'Creative Comparisons: Making Science Familiar through Language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts'. Free Download.