PASCAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pascal mean? 

• PASCAL (noun)
  The noun PASCAL has 3 senses:

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

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

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

  Familiarity information: PASCAL used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASCAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

Pa; pascal

Hypernyms ("pascal" is a kind of...):

pressure unit (a unit measuring force per unit area)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Blaise Pascal; Pascal

Instance hypernyms:

mathematician (a person skilled in mathematics)

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Pascal" is a kind of...):

programing language; programming language ((computer science) a language designed for programming computers)

 Context examples 

A SI derived unit of pressure equivalent to one thousandth of one pascal.

(Millipascal, NCI Thesaurus)

A SI derived unit of pressure equivalent to one hundred pascals, 1 millibar or 0.0145 pounds per square inch.

(Hectopascal, NCI Thesaurus)

A CGS unit of dynamic viscosity equal to 10E-3 pascal second.

(Centipoise, NCI Thesaurus)