pica
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Noun
- A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.
- A magpie.
- A size of type between small pica and English, now standardized as 12-point.
- A font of this size.
- A unit of length equivalent to 12 points, officially ³⁵⁄₈₃ cm (0.166 in) after 1886 but now (computing) ¹⁄₆ in.
- A pie or directory: the book directing Roman Catholic observance of saints' days and other feasts under various calendars.
- Archaic form of pika (“small lagomorph”).
- Abbreviation of phenolic impregnated carbon ablator.
- Initialism of posterior inferior cerebellar artery.
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