Definizione monolingua

bicameral

bicameral (not comparable)

1. (politics) Having, or pertaining to, two separate legislative chambers or houses.
   • 1891, John William Burgess, Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law, Volume 2, page 108,

     By preventing legislative usurpation in the beginning, the bicameral legislature avoids executive usurpation in the end.

   • 1911, Saxony, article in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition,

     The legislature (Standeversammlung) is bicameral — the constitution of the co-ordinate chambers being finally settled by a law of 1868 amending the enactment of 1831.

   • 2009 February 9, Carl Hulse, “In Congress, Aides Start to Map Talks on Stimulus”, New York Times:

     Once the Senate votes, aides said, the first order of business in the bicameral talks will be to set an overall dollar figure […] .

2. (typography, of a typeface or script) Having two cases: uppercase and lowercase.
   • 2001, Yves Savourel, XML Internationalization and Localization, page 80,

     Aspect values on bicameral fonts are based on the size of the lowercase characters.

   • 2004, Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, version 3.0, page 255:

     Bicameral (upper- and lowercase) unserifed roman fonts were apparently first cut in Leipzig in the 1820s.

   • 2004, Parmenides, Peter Koch, et al., Carving the Elements: A Companion to the Fragments of Parmenides, page 91,

     For more than a thousand years, classical Greek has been habitually written in a bicameral, polytonic alphabet (one with caps and lower case and a set of diacritics marking tone and aspiration).

Definizione dizionario bicameral

bicamerale

Altri significati:

(politics) Having, or pertaining to, two separate legislative chambers or houses.

having two separate legislative chambers

(typography) Of a typeface, having two typographic cases: uppercase and lowercase.