Word that means "outdated name"
Is there a word that means "outdated name"? For example:
- Record, although very little music is on vinyl
- Film, although most movies are digital
- Horsepower, although no one uses horses as a metric anymore
- Phone, although it's mostly used to access the web
and so on.
Solution 1:
These terms are holdovers from a previous era.
Solution 2:
You could say that it's an anachronism.
Solution 3:
Such expressions are perhaps edging towards fossilised metaphor.