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Definitions of pica in English

Noun(1) an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently(2) a linear unit (1/6 inch(3) magpies

Examples of pica in English

(1) If you are (still) using a typewriter, it doesn't matter whether your work is typed in pica (10 characters per inch) or elite (12 per inch) typeface.(2) Rarely, a person with iron-deficiency anemia may experience pica , a craving to eat nonfood items such as paint chips, chalk, or dirt.(3) This requires that the editor read with a pica ruler and a calculator, a weird and not particularly pleasant way to read poetry.(4) All matter to be reproduced by Xerography or a similar process shall be typed in pica type, double-spaced.(5) Some pregnant women, for example, have stopped eating nonfood items after they were treated for iron deficiency anemia, a common condition among pregnant women with pica .(6) The paper should be typed in pica (10 characters per inch) or elite (12 characters per inch).(7) This tendency was aggravated by apparent pica (an abnormal craving) that prompted him at various times to inhale the terpene camphor and to ingest other products containing terpenes, namely his oil paints and turpentine.(8) But another suspicious aspect to me was that it had been typed in " pica " typeface rather than the smaller "elite" typeface that was used in all the office letters that I had obtained from the Library archives.(9) Other studies note an association between pica and addiction or addictive behaviors.(10) adults with pica tend to be highly selective(11) In addition, childhood behaviors like repetitive hand-to-mouth activity and pica predispose the child to ingestion.(12) The standard font and margins were agreed upon because early scripts were typed in pica with one-inch margins.(13) For high resolution pictures, you will need to find a minimum photo size, in inches or picas , that your publisher wants for publication.(14) Newsprint folks have to consider points and picas .(15) Text that previously sat 12 picas wide now could fit in an 11 pica wide column.(16) You can control the property with percentages, as I have done here, or with ems, exs, inches, picas , centimeters, millimeters or pixels (px).

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