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Word: Pica
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 16th century: from Anglo-Latin pica (literally ‘magpie’), commonly identified with a 15th-century book of rules about Church feasts, but no edition of such a pica printed in ‘pica’ type is known
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈpʌɪkə
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a unit of type size and line length equal to 12 points (about 1/6 inch or 4.2 mm).
Short Definition:unit of type size and line length equal to 12 points
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