bicameral
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bicameral
- /bʌɪˈkaməɹəl/ UK
adjective
- Being or having a system with two, often unequal, chambers or compartments; of, signifying, relating to, or being the product of such a two-chambered system. the bicameral anatomy of the brain
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Of, having, or relating to two separate legislative chambers or houses.
Once the Senate votes, aides said, the first order of business in the bicameral talks will be to set an overall dollar figure […].
Opposite: unicameral, tricameral
- Of a script or typeface: having two cases, upper case and lower case. Aspect values on bicameral fonts are based on the size of the lowercase characters.
- Relating to the functions of the two cerebral hemispheres in the history of human beings ‘hearing’ the speech of gods or idols, according to Julian Jaynes's theory of the bicameral mind. [The Linear B Tablets] were written directly in what I am calling the bicameral period. p.80; …to have an idea of the nature and range of the bicameral voices heard in the early civilizations. p.88; …how could [the brain] have been organized so that a bicameral mentality was possible? p.101; Like th
Opposite: caseless, unicameral, unicase
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adjective
Opposite: caseless, unicameral, unicase
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adj having two separate legislative chambers
| Español | bicameral |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 양원제의 yang'wonje'ui |
| 日本語 | 二院制 niinsei |
| 中文 | 兩院制的 /两院制的 liǎngyuànzhì de, 有兩個議院的 /有两个议院的 yǒu liǎng gè yìyuàn de |
| Português | bicameral, bicamaral |
| Français | bicaméral |
| Deutsch | Zweikammer |
| Italiano | bicamerale |
| Română | bicameral |
| Русский | двухпала́тный dvuxpalátnyj |
adj (typography, of a typeface or script) Having two cases: uppercase and lowercase
| Français | bicaméral |
|---|---|
| Русский | име́ющий ве́рхний и ни́жний реги́стры iméjuščij vérxnij i nížnij regístry |
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title = {bicameral},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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