English noun: pascal |
1. | pascal (quantity) a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter |
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| Synonyms | Pa |
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| Broader (hypernym) | pressure unit |
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2. | Pascal (person) French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662) |
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| Synonyms | Blaise Pascal |
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| Instance hypernym | mathematician, philosopher |
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3. | Pascal (communication) a programing language designed to teach programming through a top-down modular approach |
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| Broader (hypernym) | programing language, programming language |
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