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Noun: pascal  pas-kul or pas'kal
  1. A unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter
    "The tire pressure was measured in pascals";
    - Pa
Noun: Pascal  pas'kal
  1. French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662)
    - Blaise Pascal
     
  2. A programing language designed to teach programming through a top-down modular approach

Sounds like: parmpascal, p

Derived forms: pascals

Type of: mathematician, philosopher, pressure unit, programing language [US], programming language

Encyclopedia: Pascal, Patrick