bicameral
Étymologie
[modifier le wikicode]Adjectif
[modifier le wikicode]bicameral
- (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)
- (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)
Antonymes
[modifier le wikicode]- politique
- typographie
Apparentés étymologiques
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[modifier le wikicode]Prononciation
[modifier le wikicode]- (Royaume-Uni) : \bʌɪˈkaməɹəl\
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Références
[modifier le wikicode]- Cette page utilise des informations de l’article du Wiktionnaire en anglais, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 : bicameral. (liste des auteurs et autrices)