PASCAL
pronunciation
How to pronounce PASCAL in British English:
UK ['pæskl]
How to pronounce PASCAL in American English:
US ['pæskl]
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- Noun:
- a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter
Word Origin
- PASCAL
- high-level computer programming language, 1971, named for French scholar Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), who invented a calculating machine c. 1642.
Example
- 1. Pascal payet escaped twice from the prison using a hijacked helicopter .
- 2. Pascal was therefore only partly right .
- 3. According to zhai , the material is sensitive enough to detect one pascal of pressure .
- 4. But , whereas pascal 's ideas are simple and widely understood , bayes 's have always been harder to grasp .
- 5. Pascal 's triangle has the interesting property that every interior entry is the sum of the two entries above it .