pascal (n.)

  1. a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter

    [ Syn: pa ]

  2. French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662)

    [ Syn: pascal , blaise pascal ]

  3. a programing language designed to teach programming through a top-down modular approach

    [ Syn: pascal ]

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