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tautology collapse: useless repetition; "to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology"; (logic) a statement that is necessarily true; "the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology"

malapropism collapse: the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar

simile collapse: a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')

digression collapse: wandering from the main path of a journey; a message that departs from the main subject

involution collapse: the action of enfolding something; a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction; reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)

indirection collapse: deceitful action that is not straightforward; "he could see through the indirections of diplomats"; indirect procedure or action; "he tried to find out by indirection"

excursion collapse: a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"

redundancy collapse: repetition of an act needlessly; the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; "the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers"; (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails; repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission

metaphor collapse: a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

circulation collapse: the spread or transmission of something (as news or money) to a wider group or area; the dissemination of copies of periodicals (as newspapers or magazines); free movement or passage through a series of vessels (as of water through pipes or sap through a plant); movement through a circuit; especially the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels; number of copies of a newspaper or magazine that are sold; "by increasing its circulation the newspaper hoped to increase its advertising"; (library science) the count of books that are loaned by a library over a specified period

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