[
  {
    "word": "basis",
    "phonetic": "/\u02c8be\u026as\u026as/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8be\u026as\u026as/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8be\u026as\u026as/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/basis-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2100334",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A physical base or foundation.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "An underlying condition or circumstance.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A regular frequency.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Cars must be checked on a yearly basis."
          },
          {
            "definition": "In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A collection of subsets (\"basis elements\") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The collection of all possible unions of basis elements of a basis is said to be the topology generated by that basis."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "base"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/basis"
    ]
  }
]