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pascal

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pas·cal  (p-skl, pä-skäl)
n.
1. Abbr. Pa A unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter.
2. Pascal or PASCAL A high-level programming language designed to support structured programming and used in teaching, applications, and systems programming.
[After Blaise Pascal.]
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]
pascal  (p-skl, pä-skäl)
The SI derived unit used to measure pressure. One pascal is equal to one newton per square meter.
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Noun1.pascal - a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter
Pa
pressure unit - a unit measuring force per unit area
2.pascalPascal - French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662)
Blaise Pascal
3.Pascal - a programing language designed to teach programming through a top-down modular approach
programing language, programming language - (computer science) a language designed for programming computers


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He has said some things in Pascal's vein not unworthy of Pascal.
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
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.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Some seconds of a Pascal or a Newton are more precious than the whole existence of a crowd of raw simpletons----"
Round The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
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