bicameral

Etymology

From bi- +‎ Latin camera (“chamber”) +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bʌɪˈkaməɹəl/

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• Hyphenation: bi‧cam‧er‧al

Adjective

bicameral (not comparable)

1. (government) 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”, in 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 script or typeface: having two cases, upper case and lower case.
   • 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).

Etymology

bi- +‎ cameral; cf. French bicaméral, English bicameral.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /bi.kə.məˈɾal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /bi.ka.meˈɾal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

bicameral (masculine and feminine plural bicamerals)

1. bicameral

Etymology

bi- +‎ cameral; cf. French bicaméral, English bicameral.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bi‧ca‧me‧ral

Adjective

bicameral m, f (plural bicamerais, comparable)

1. (politics) bicameral (having two separate legislative chambers)

Etymology

bi- +‎ cameral, or borrowed from French bicaméral.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bikameˈɾal/
• Hyphenation: bi‧ca‧me‧ral

Adjective

bicameral (plural bicamerales)

1. bicameral