Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pascal

3 senses of pascal

Sense 1
pascal, Pa -- (a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter)
       => pressure unit -- (a unit measuring force per unit area)

Sense 2
Pascal, Blaise Pascal -- (French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662))
       INSTANCE OF=> mathematician -- (a person skilled in mathematics)
       INSTANCE OF=> philosopher -- (a specialist in philosophy)

Sense 3
Pascal -- (a programing language designed to teach programming through a top-down modular approach)
       => programming language, programing language -- ((computer science) a language designed for programming computers)