Associations to the word «Pascal»

Wiktionary

PASCAL, noun. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of pressure and stress; one newton per square metre. Symbol: Pa.
PASCAL, proper noun. A male given name used in medieval England; today occasionally borrowed from French.
PASCAL, proper noun. The French mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal.
PASCAL, proper noun. The Pascal programming language.

Dictionary definition

PASCAL, noun. A unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter.
PASCAL, noun. French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662).
PASCAL, noun. A programing language designed to teach programming through a top-down modular approach.

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