Pascal
['pæsk(ə)l] or ['pæskl]
Definition
(noun.) a programing language designed to teach programming through a top-down modular approach.
(noun.) French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662).
(noun.) a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter.
Checked by Dolores--From WordNet
Examples
- Pascal thought that this pressure would be less at a high altitude. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Later Pascal experimented with the siphon and succeeded in explaining it on the principle of atmospheric pressure. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Galileo, Torricelli, Pascal, and Sir Isaac Newton in the Seventeenth Century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It would be like marrying Pascal. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Vérité, au de?à des Pyrénées, erreur au de là, says Pascal. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Edited by Cheryl