Definitions for pascal
pæˈskæl, pɑˈskɑlpas·cal

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. pascal, Panoun

   a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter

2. Pascal, Blaise Pascalnoun

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

3. Pascalnoun

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. pascalnoun

   In the International System of Units, the derived unit of pressure and stress; one newton per square metre. Symbol: Pa.

2. Pascalnoun

   used in medieval England; today occasionally borrowed from French.

3. Pascalnoun

   The French mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal.

4. Pascalnoun

   The Pascal programming language.

5. Etymology: Paschalis, from pascha "Easter", for birth on Easter, or in honor of a 9th century pope.

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1. pascal

   Pascal is a unit of pressure in the International System of Units (SI), named after the French mathematician and physicist, Blaise Pascal. It is equivalent to one newton per square meter. Additionally, Pascal is also a high-level programming language developed in the late 1960s, designed for good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Pascal

   The pascal is the SI derived unit of pressure, internal pressure, stress, Young's modulus and tensile strength, named after the French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and philosopher Blaise Pascal. It is a measure of force per unit area, defined as one newton per square meter. Common multiple units of the pascal are the hectopascal, kilopascal, megapascal, and gigapascal. On Earth, standard atmospheric pressure is 101,325 Pa. Meteorological barometric pressure reports typically report atmospheric pressure in hectopascals. The kilopascal is used in other applications such as inflation guidance markings on bicycle tires. One hectopascal corresponds to about 0.1% of atmospheric pressure slightly above sea level; one kilopascal is about 1% of atmospheric pressure. One hectopascal is equivalent to one millibar; one standard atmosphere is exactly equal to 101.325 kPa or 1013.25 hPa or 101325 Pa. The corresponding Imperial unit is pounds per square inch.

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. Pascal

   An Algol-descended language designed by Niklaus Wirth on the CDC 6600 around 1967--68 as an instructional tool for elementary programming. This language, designed primarily to keep students from shooting themselves in the foot and thus extremely restrictive from a general-purpose-programming point of view, was later promoted as a general-purpose tool and, in fact, became the ancestor of a large family of languages including Modula-2 and Ada (see also bondage-and-discipline language). The hackish point of view on Pascal was probably best summed up by a devastating (and, in its deadpan way, screamingly funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of K&R fame) entitled Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language, which was turned down by the technical journals but circulated widely via photocopies. It was eventually published in Comparing and Assessing Programming Languages, edited by Alan Feuer and Narain Gehani (Prentice-Hall, 1984). Part of his discussion is worth repeating here, because its criticisms are still apposite to Pascal itself after many years of improvement and could also stand as an indictment of many other bondage-and-discipline languages. (The entire essay is available at http://www.lysator.liu./definition/bwk-on-pascal.) At the end of a summary of the case against Pascal, Kernighan wrote:9. There is no escapeThis last point is perhaps the most important. The language is inadequate but circumscribed, because there is no way to escape its limitations. There are no casts to disable the type-checking when necessary. There is no way to replace the defective run-time environment with a sensible one, unless one controls the compiler that defines the “standard procedures”. The language is closed.People who use Pascal for serious programming fall into a fatal trap. Because the language is impotent, it must be extended. But each group extends Pascal in its own direction, to make it look like whatever language they really want. Extensions for separate compilation, FORTRAN-like COMMON, string data types, internal static variables, initialization, octal numbers, bit operators, etc., all add to the utility of the language for one group but destroy its portability to others.I feel that it is a mistake to use Pascal for anything much beyond its original target. In its pure form, Pascal is a toy language, suitable for teaching but not for real programming.Pascal has since been entirely displaced (mainly by C) from the niches it had acquired in serious applications and systems programming, and from its role as a teaching language by Java.

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PASCAL

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Pascal is ranked #10314 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Pascal surname appeared 3,124 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Pascal.
   
   47% or 1,471 total occurrences were White.
   38% or 1,190 total occurrences were Black.
   10.8% or 339 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.9% or 61 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.4% or 46 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.5% or 17 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Mathematician
   • Philosopher
   • Pressure Unit
   • Programming Language

How to pronounce pascal?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of pascal in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of pascal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of pascal in a Sentence

1. Tom Holland:

   Amy Pascal FaceTimed me earlier. I was in the bath, and we had a lovely FaceTime, but I will be playing Fred Astaire.

2. Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang:

   Strong demand for our new Pascal-generation GPUs and surging interest in deep learning drove record results.

3. C. M. Cox:

   Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them. He did not know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names he made axioms and finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the thirty-second proposition of Euclid.

4. Anonymous:

   Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.

5. Malcolm Muggeridge:

   In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=pascal
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pascal
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=pascal
5. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Pascal
6. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html