pi·ca /ˈpaɪkə/
十二點活字,異食癖
pica
皮卡(單位,約六分之一吋);十二點活字
Pi·ca n.
1. Zool. The genus that includes the magpies.
2. Med. A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, such as clay, chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
Syn: -- allotriophagy.
3. R. C. Ch. A service-book. See Pie. [Obs.]
4. Print. A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.
Note: ☞
Note: ☞ Pica is twice the size of nonpareil, and is used as a standard of measurement in casting leads, cutting rules, etc., and also as a standard by which to designate several larger kinds of type, as double pica, two-line pica, four-line pica, and the like.
Small pica Print., a size of type next larger than long primer, and smaller than pica.
Note: ☞
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pica
n 1: a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing [syn: em, pica
em]
2: magpies [syn: genus Pica]
3: eating earth or clay or chalk; occurs in some primitive
tribes or sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency
[syn: geophagy, geophagia]