bicameral

adj

1. (not-comparable)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”

   “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.”

2. (not-comparable)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 […].”

3. (not-comparable)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.”

   “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).”

4. (not-comparable)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.