multicameral
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having multiple chambers; consisting of three or more enclosed spaces; multicamerate.
adj
Having three or more judicial or legislative chambers; employing multicameralism.
adj
Involving three or more special interest groups or viewpoints.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Thus, the lungs of all turtles, tortoises, monitor lizards, and crocodiles are multicameral lungs."
- "Although cysts are almost invariably unicameral in shape, multiple lesions can manifest as a multicameral appearance when clustered together."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more multicameral (comparative)
most multicameral (superlative)