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Pica vs. Picra — What's the Difference?

Pica vs. Picra — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Pica and Picra

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Pica

A printer's unit of type size, equal to 12 points or about 1/6 of an inch.

Picra

The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.

Pica

An equivalent unit of composition measurement used in determining the dimensions of lines, illustrations, or printed pages.

Picra

The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.

Pica

A type size for typewriters, providing ten characters to the inch.
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Pica

A psychiatric disorder characterized by the compulsive eating of nonfood substances, such as soil, clay, ice, or hair.

Pica

(pathology) A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.

Pica

A size of type between small pica and English, now standardized as 12-point.

Pica

A font of this size.

Pica

A unit of length equivalent to 12 points, officially 83 cm (0.166 in) after 1886 but now (computing) 6 in.

Pica

A pie or directory: the book directing Roman Catholic observance of saints' days and other feasts under various calendars.

Pica

A magpie.

Pica

The genus that includes the magpies.

Pica

A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.

Pica

A service-book. See Pie.

Pica

A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.

Pica

A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing

Pica

Magpies

Pica

Eating earth or clay or chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes or sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency

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