Pica or PICA may refer to:

Biology

Pica (disorder) Pica ("PIE-kuh"; IPA: /ˈpaɪkə/) is the craving or consumption of objects that are not normally intended to be consumed. It is classified as an eating disorder but can also be the result of an existing mental disorder. The ingested or craved ...

, an abnormal appetite for earth and other non-foods *

Posterior inferior cerebellar artery The posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) is the largest branch of the vertebral artery. It is one of the three main arteries that supply blood to the cerebellum, a part of the brain. Blockage of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery can ...

, a major artery supplying blood to the cerebellum

Organisms

* ''Aechmea'' 'Pica', a cultivar of the flowering plant '' Aechmea recurvata'' * ''Pica'' (genus), a genus of magpie *

Pika A pika ( , or ) is a small, mountain-dwelling mammal native to Asia and North America. With short limbs, a very round body, an even coat of fur, and no external tail, they resemble their close relative the rabbit, but with short, rounded ears. ...

, a small mammal (archaic spelling "pica")

Organizations

OCLC PICA OCLC PICA was a library automation systems and services company which originated from a co-operation of the Pica Foundation (''Stichting Pica'') of the Netherlands and the non-profit library company OCLC Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) of th ...

, a library automation company *

Palestine Jewish Colonization Association The Palestine Jewish Colonization Association (), commonly known by its Yiddish acronym PICA (), was established in 1924. It played a major role in purchasing land and building Jewish settlement in Palestine and later the State of Israel until t ...

, known by its Yiddish acronym as PICA *

Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority PICA History The Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority, or PICA, is the financial oversight board for the City of Philadelphia. It was created through the 1991 legislation, "Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority A ...

, a governmental agency in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania *

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) is a contemporary visual and performance arts venue located in a heritage-listed building in Perth, Western Australia. History 1896–1959: Schools The building at 53 James Street, Northbridge, James ...

, Western Australia *

Pica Press A & C Black is a British book publishing company, owned since 2002 by Bloomsbury Publishing. The company is noted for publishing ''Who's Who'' since 1849 and the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' between 1827 and 1903. It offers a wide variety of boo ...

, a publishing imprint *

Pittsburgh Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority The Pittsburgh Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority (Pittsburgh ICA, also known as the Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority for Cities of the Second Class), is a special administrative body that was created by the Commonwealth of Pennsylva ...

, a governmental agency in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania *

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) is a contemporary performance and visual arts organization in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. PICA was founded in 1995 by Kristy Edmunds. Since 2003, it has presented the annual Time-Bas ...

, Oregon

People

Amalia Pica Amalia Pica (born 1978 in Neuquén, Argentina) is a London-based Argentine artist who explores metaphor, communication, and civic participation through sculptures, installations, photographs, projections, live performances, and drawings. Pica cu ...

(born 1978), Argentine artist * Antonio Pica (1923–2014), Spanish actor * Joe Pica (1923–1973), American pianist * Pierre Pica (born 1951), French linguist * Teresa P. Pica (1945–2011), American educator *

Tina Pica Tina Pica (31 March 1884 – 15 August 1968) was an Italian supporting actress who played character roles on stage. Her film debut came in 1935 with '' The Three-Cornered Hat''. In the 1950s, she became a celebrity thanks to her role as Caram ...

(1884–1968), Italian actress *

Yamantaka Eye (born , 13 February 1964) is a Japanese vocalist and visual artist, best known as a member of Boredoms, Hanatarash and Naked City. He has changed his stage name three times, from Yamatsuka Eye, to Yamantaka Eye, to Yamataka Eye, and sometime ...

(born 1964), Japanese artist known as DJ Pica Pica Pica (DJ 光光光)

Places

* Pica, Chile, an oasis town in the Atacama Desert of Chile ** Limón de Pica, a lime variety from Pica * Pica, Cumbria, a village in northwest England * Pica, Jayuya, Puerto Rico, a barrio

Technology

Acer PICA The M6100 PICA is a system logic chipset designed by Acer Laboratories introduced in 1993. ''PICA'' stands for ''Performance-enhanced Input-output and CPU Architecture''. It was based on the Jazz architecture developed by Microsoft and supported th ...

, a system logic chipset introduced in 1993 * Phenolic-impregnated carbon ablator, a spacecraft heat shield material * Pre-integrated COF APM, part of the International Space Station's ''Columbus'' module systems

Other uses

* ''Pica'', an alternative name for the grape Merille * Pica, a lance used by a

picador A ''picador'' (; pl. ''picadores'') is one of the pair of horse-mounted bullfighters in a Spanish-style bullfight that jab the bull with a lance. They perform in the ''tercio de varas'', which is the first of the three stages in a stylized bull ...

in bullfighting *

Pica (typography) The pica is a typographic unit of measure corresponding to approximately of an inch. One pica is further divided into 12 Point (typography), points. In printing, three pica measures are used: * The French pica of 12 Didot points (also called ...

, a unit of length used in typesetting and document layout * ''

píča Píča (), sometimes short piča or pyča /, is a Czech language, Czech and Slovak language, Slovak profanity that refers to the vagina similar to the English language, English word cunt. It is often represented as a symbol of a spearhead, a rhom ...

'', a rude expression for a vagina in the Czech Republic and Slovakia