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unicameral

adjective/juːniːˈkaməɹəl/

unicameral: of, or having, a single legislative chamber
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What It Means

Of, or having, a single legislative chamber.

Of a script or typeface: making no distinction between upper and lower case, but rather having only one case.

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Unicameral in Context

“There have been several misunderstandings with regard to Georgian. The Unicode table speaks of "capital" Georgian letters (for example, georgian capital letter an) and of caseless letters (for example, georgian letter an). In fact, the modern Georgian script is unicameral. Two issues gave rise to...”

— 2007 September, Yannis Haralambous, translated by P. Scott Horne, Fonts & Encodings, Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media, Inc., page 75

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From uni- + cameral.

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