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pascal Noun the SI unit of pressure; the pressure exerted on an area of 1 square metre by a force of 1 newton [after B. Pascal, mathematician & scientist] Pascal Noun a high-level computer programming language developed as a teaching language [after B. Pascal, mathematician & scientist]
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| He has said some things in Pascal's vein not unworthy of Pascal. But he who dodges hospitals and jails, and walks fast crossing grave-yards, and would rather talk of operas than hell; calls Cowper, Young, Pascal, Rousseau, poor devils all of sick men; and throughout a care-free lifetime swears by Rabelais as passing wise, and therefore jolly; --not that man is fitted to sit down on tomb-stones, and break the green damp mould with unfathomably wondrous Solomon. Some seconds of a Pascal or a Newton are more precious than the whole existence of a crowd of raw simpletons----" |
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