{
    "term": "segment",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "image": "data/images/fr/fruit_citrus.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a part of something that is separate from the other parts or can be considered separately",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She cleaned a small segment of the painting."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Lines divided the area into segments."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The changes will affect only a small segment of the population."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They divided the bone into equal segments."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Maths and measurement"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "one of the sections of an orange, a lemon, etc.",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Food"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a part of a circle separated from the rest by a single line",
            "labels": "(geometry)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the smallest speech sound that a word can be divided into",
            "labels": "(phonetics)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈseɡmənt/",
                "audio": "se/segment/segment__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈseɡmənt/",
                "audio": "se/segment/segment__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (as a term in geometry): from Latin segmentum, from secare ‘to cut’. The verb dates from the mid 19th cent."
}