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pascal
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pascal has 3 senses
- pascal(n = noun.quantity) pa - a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter; Array 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); Array is a kind of mathematician, philosopher
- pascal(n = noun.communication) Array - a programing language designed to teach programming through a top-down modular approach; Array is a kind of programing language, programming language
OXFORD DICTIONARY
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.
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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