pascal

Noun

Pas=cal

WORDNET DICTIONARY

pascal(n = noun.quantity) pa - a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter;

is a kind of pressure unit

pascal(n = noun.person) blaise pascal - French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662);

is a kind of mathematician, philosopher

pascal(n = noun.communication) - a programing language designed to teach programming through a top-down modular approach;

pascal, n.
1 the SI unit of pressure, equal to one newton per square metre.
2 (Pascal) Computing a programming language esp. used in education.

Etymology

B. Pascal, Fr. scientist d. 1662: sense 2 so named because he built a calculating machine

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