pica

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noun

Plural noun:

picas

1.
(uncountable, usually)(pathology, usually uncountable) A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.
Đồng nghĩa: allotriophagy, chthonophagia, cittosis, geophagy, pique
2.
(countable)A magpie.
3.
(uncountable)(typography, printing, uncountable) A size of type between small pica and English, now standardized as 12-point.
4.
(uncountable, usually)(typography, uncountable, usually with qualifier) A font of this size.
5.
(countable)(typography, countable) A unit of length equivalent to 12 points, officially ³⁵⁄₈₃ cm (0.166 in) after 1886 but now (computing) ¹⁄₆ in.
6.
(countable, uncommon, uncountable)(uncommon, ecclesiastical) A pie or directory: the book directing Roman Catholic observance of saints' days and other feasts under various calendars.
7.
(alt of, archaic)Archaic form of pika (“small lagomorph”).

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ine-pro Latin pīca (jay; magpie). pie. * pathology From the idea that magpies will eat almost anything.