Metaphors

Just general concepts from various fields that I find particularly interesting or alluring to use as metaphors. Or things I’ve thought would make good metaphors. Not necessarily ones that have entered my personal Lexicon.

Countergradient

Adaptation that opposes environmental gradients

Metastability

Seemingly stable state vulnerable to sudden transition

Palimpsest

Text written over earlier, partially erased writing; maybe something that takes the place of the old?