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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