bicameral

Du latin camera (« chambre ») et du préfixe -bi- et du suffixe -al.

bicameral

1. (Politique) Bicaméral.
   • By preventing legislative usurpation in the beginning, the bicameral legislature avoids executive usurpation in the end. — (John William Burgess, Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law, Volume 2, page 108, 1891)
   • 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. — (Saxony, article dans Encyclopædia Britannica 1911, 1911)
   • Once the Senate votes, aides said, the first order of business in the bicameral talks will be to set an overall dollar figure […]. — (Carl Hulse, “In Congress, Aides Start to Map Talks on Stimulus”, New York Times, 9 février 2009)
2. (Typographie) Bicaméral.
   • Aspect values on bicameral fonts are based on the size of the lowercase characters. — (Yves Savourel, XML Internationalization and Localization, page 80, 2001)
   • Bicameral (upper- and lowercase) unserifed roman fonts were apparently first cut in Leipzig in the 1820s. — (Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, version 3.0, page 255, 2004)
   • 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). — (Parmenides, Peter Koch, et al., Carving the Elements: A Companion to the Fragments of Parmenides, page 91, 2004)

politique

• unicameral

typographie

• caseless

• camera
• unicameral

• chamber
• legislature

• (Royaume-Uni) : \bʌɪˈkaməɹəl\
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