Pica or PICA may refer to:

Biology

Pica (disorder) Pica is the eating or craving of things that are not food. It can be a disorder in itself or a sign of other cultural or medical phenomena. The ingested or craved substance may be biological, natural or manmade. The term was drawn directly from t ...

, 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 r ...

, a major artery supplying blood to the cerebellum

Organisms

* ''Aechmea'' 'Pica', a hybrid cultivar in the Bromeliad family of flowering plants * ''Pica'' (genus), a genus of magpie *

Pika A pika ( or ; archaically spelled pica) is a small, mountain-dwelling mammal found in Asia and North America. With short limbs, very round body, an even coat of fur, and no external tail, they resemble their close relative, the rabbit, but wi ...

, a small mammal (archaic spelling "pica")

Organizations

OCLC PICA OCLC, Inc., doing business as OCLC, See also: is an American nonprofit cooperative organization "that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs for its membership and the library community at large". It was ...

, a library automation company *

Palestine Jewish Colonization Association The Palestine Jewish Colonization Association ( he, חברה להתיישבות יהודית בארץ־ישראל), commonly known by its Yiddish acronym PICA ( he, פיק"א), was established in 1924. It played a major role in purchasing land for ...

, 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 Ac ...

, 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, which ...

, 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. It also published popular travel guides and novels. History The firm was founded in 1 ...

, 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 created by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to ove ...

, 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-Based ...

, Oregon

People

Antonio Pica Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Pica Serrano (21 March 1933 — 26 April 2014) was a Spanish actor. Pica died on 26 April 2014 at a hospital in El Puerto de Santa María, Spain. Filmography * ''A Fistful of Dollars'' (1964) - Rojo Gang Membe ...

(1923–2014), Spanish actor *

Joe Pica Joe Pica (September 19, 1923 – December 13, 1973), nicknamed "The Wizard of the Keys," was a popular United States East Coast pianist and lounge singer who flourished in the 1950s."Joseph Pica," 153-14-2379U.S. Social Security Death Index/ref>rack ...

(1923–1973), American pianist *

Pierre Pica Pierre Pica (born January 5, 1951), is a research associate (Chargé de Recherche) at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris. Associated Professor with the Brain Institute of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, he is a spec ...

(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 Caramel ...

(1884–1968), Italian actress *

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

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

Places

Pica, Chile Pica is a Chilean town and commune in Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá Region. Situated in the inland of the Atacama Desert on an oasis, Pica is famous for its small and unusually acidic limes known as Limón de Pica. The town has a communal hot spr ...

, an oasis town in the Atacama Desert of Chile **

Limón de Pica Limón de Pica is an unusually acidic lime from the oasis town of Pica in Atacama Desert. Limóns de Pica have had an appellation of origin since 2010. The environment where the limes are grown has a mild microclimate that does not display the typ ...

, a lime variety from Pica *

Pica, Cumbria Distington () is a large village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, south of Workington and north of Whitehaven. Historically a part of Cumberland, the civil parish includes the nearby settlements of Common End, Gilgarran and Pica. The p ...

, a village in northwest England *

Pica, Jayuya, Puerto Rico Pica () is a barrio in the municipality of Jayuya, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 153. In 1948, Pica was established from part of what was Jayuya Arriba (Jayuya barrio-pueblo). See also * List of communities in Puerto Rico In Puerto ...

, 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 bullf ...

in bullfighting *

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

, 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