bicameral
suomi-englanti sanakirjabicameral englannista suomeksi
kaksikammioinen
kaksikamari-, kaksikamarinen
bicameral englanniksi
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.
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{{quote-text|en|year=1911|chapter=Encyclopædia Britannica/Saxony|Saxony|title=Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
Of, having{{, or relating to two separate legislative chambers or houses.
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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).
Relating to the functions of the two hemispheres|cerebral hemispheres in the history of human beings ‘hearing’ the speech of gods or idols, according to Jaynes|Julian Jaynes's theory of the mind.
1976, 1990, Julian Jaynes, ''The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind'', Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston:
- ''Linear B Tablets were written directly in what I am calling the bicameral period.'' p.80;
- ''…to have an idea of the nature and range of the bicameral voices heard in the early civilizations.'' p.88;
- ''…how could brain have been organized so that a bicameral mentality was possible?'' p.101;
- ''Like the queen in a termite nest or a beehive, the idols of a bicameral world are the carefully tended centers of social control, with auditory hallucinations instead of pheromones.'' p.144;
- ''…wherever and whenever civilization first began…there was a succession of kingdoms all with similar characteristics that, somewhat prematurely, I shall call bicameral.'' p.149;
- ''Bicameral gods conquering civilizations are jealous gods.'' p.156, footnote;
- ''…I suggest that given man, language, and cities organized on a bicameral basis, there are only certain fixed patterns into which history can fit.'' p.159.
- ''How can we know that…idols ‘spoke’ in the bicameral sense?'' p.174.
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