PICA


Meaning of PICA in English

/ ˈpaɪkə; NAmE / noun

( technical ) a unit for measuring the size of printed letters and the length of a line of printed text

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WORD ORIGIN

late 16th cent.: from Anglo-Latin pica (literally magpie ), commonly identified with a 15th-cent. book of rules about Church feasts, but no edition of such a pica printed in “pica” type is known.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.