An example of a simile in discussing science:
"In other words, the Schrödinger wave in the case of a many-particle system cannot be a physical wave in three-dimensional space (which would be an 'ordinary conception') since it 'lives' in a high-dimensional mathematical space.
… we have to assume that he [Neils Bohr] realised the consequences of the superposition principle when he argued that the wave function lives in configuration space."
Dieks, Dennis (2017) Neils Bohr and the formation of quantum mechanics, in, Neils Bohr and the Philosophy of Physics. Twenty-first-century perspectives (Jan Faye & Henry J. Folse, eds.) Bloomsbury Academic: London, pp.303-333.
The first use here marks the term 'lives' as a simile by using inverted commas, but later the term is used unmarked (as in a metaphor).
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