Bicameral vs Bilateral - What's the difference?
bicameral | bilateral |
(politics) Having, or pertaining to, two separate legislative chambers or houses.
* 1891 , John William Burgess, Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law , Volume 2,
* 1911 , ,
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(typography, of a typeface or script) Having two cases: uppercase and lowercase.
* 2001 , Yves Savourel, XML Internationalization and Localization ,
* 2004 , Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, version 3.0 , page 255:
* 2004 , Parmenides, Peter Koch, et al., Carving the Elements: A Companion to the Fragments of Parmenides ,
Having two sides
Involving both sides equally.
(of an agreement) Binding on both of the two parties involved.
Having bilateral symmetry.
(anthropology) Involving descent or ascent regardless of sex and side of the family.
As adjectives the difference between bicameral and bilateral
is that bicameral is having, or pertaining to, two separate legislative chambers or houses while bilateral is having two sides.bicameral
English
Adjective
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- By preventing legislative usurpation in the beginning, the bicameral legislature avoids executive usurpation in the end.
- 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.
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page 80,
- Aspect values on bicameral fonts are based on the size of the lowercase characters.
- Bicameral (upper- and lowercase) unserifed roman fonts were apparently first cut in Leipzig in the 1820s.
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).