Bicameral

From - Latin camera ("chamber") + -al.

Full definition of bicameral

(politics) Having, or pertaining to, two separate legislative chambers or houses.

1891, John William Burgess, Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law, Volume 2, page 108,By preventing legislative usurpation in the beginning, the bicameral legislature avoids executive usurpation in the end.
1911, , article in EncyclopÃ¦dia Britannica Eleventh Edition,The legislature (Standeversammlung) is bicameral â€” the constitution of the co-ordinate chambers being finally settled by a law of 1868 amending the enactment of 1831.
2009, February 9, Carl Hulse, In Congress, Aides Start to Map Talks on Stimulus, Once the Senate votes, aides said, the first order of business in the bicameral talks will be to set an overall dollar figure and then begin to sort out the differences in spending and tax changes in the two measures ...
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(typography, of a typeface or script) Having two cases: uppercase and lowercase.

2001, Yves Savourel, XML Internationalization and Localization, page 80,Aspect values on bicameral fonts are based on the size of the lowercase characters.
2004, Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, version 3.0, page 255: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).