bicameral

Definition

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.

Etymology

From bi- + Latin camera (“chamber”) + -al.

Example Sentences

• "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."