multicameral

English

Etymology

multi- +‎ cameral

Adjective

multicameral (comparative more multicameral, superlative most multicameral)

1. Having multiple chambers; consisting of three or more enclosed spaces; multicamerate.
   • 1988, Lisa Golombek, The Timurid Architecture of Iran and Turan - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 81:

     Multicameral buildings may be planned as such from the beginning, such as the mausoleums, which have a ziyarat khaneh (antechamber); or they may have acquired additions over several generations, as did many of the tomb towers in Mazanderan.

   • 1989, D. B. Wake, G. Roth, Complex Organismal Functions: Integration and Evolution in Vertebrates:

     Thus, the lungs of all turtles, tortoises, monitor lizards, and crocodiles are multicameral lungs.

   • 2010, Dushyant V Sahani, Anthony E Samir, Abdominal Imaging, →ISBN, page 551:

     Although cysts are almost invariably unicameral in shape, multiple lesions can manifest as a multicameral appearance when clustered together.

2. Having three or more judicial or legislative chambers; employing multicameralism.
   • 1999, The American Economic Review - Volume 89, page 1188:

     In contrast, we might occasionally study a bicameral or multicameral legislature that is parallel, in the sense that a bill is passed into law when it is approved by any one chamber.

   • 2005, Richard Dien Winfield, The Just State: Rethinking Self-government, page 272:

     To begin with, multicameral parliaments have given legislative expression to the divisions of premodern estate assemblies, where hereditary rank has entitled lords to an upper house of their own to counteract the lawmaking of a house of commons.

   • 2006, Roger D. Congleton, Birgitta Swedenborg, Democratic constitutional design and public policy: analysis and evidence, →ISBN:

     Many of these assemblies were multicameral, as the term "estates" implies, with particular interests (church, town, rural, and noble) represented by separate chambers of the parliament.

3. (by extension) Involving three or more special interest groups or viewpoints.
   • 2013, Steven J. Brams, Game Theory and Politics, →ISBN, page 193:

     Given the many instances of real-life multicameral institutions and the speculative and atheoretical nature of the literature that portrays power relationships among them, it seems worthwhile to try to develop a deeper and more general understanding of the manner in which they share power that clarifies "discrepancies" such as those considered above.

   • 2013, Lambert Zuidervaart, Allyson Carr, Matthew J. Klaassen, Truth Matters: Knowledge, Politics, Ethics, Religion, →ISBN:

     In Laughlin's earlier work, Brain, Symbol and Experience, he defines cosmology as: A culturally conditioned, cognized view of reality as a systemic, multicameral, dynamic, and organic whole.

   • 2017, Jacek Mercik, Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXVII, →ISBN, page 40:

     We demonstrate that for any power index satisfying a number of standard properties, the index of a player in the multicameral game can be smaller (or greater) than in all the chamber games; this can occur even when the players are ordered the same way by desirability relations in all the chamber games.