In the video for Adele's Hello, at the start, she says "I just got here and I think I'm losing signal already", she does not say her phone is losing signal.
Is that a figure of speech and, if so, how is it called?
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Sign up to join this communityIt is a figure of speech, called metonymy. More specifically, you might regard it as synecdoche, though that's a bit more arguable.