pascal

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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter
noun French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662)
noun a programing language designed to teach programming through a top-down modular approach

Borrowed from French pascal, named after French scientist and philosopher Blaise Pascal. Doublet of Paschal.

Paoli, Pascal, 74, 278-80, 287. — Footsteps of Dr. Johnson (Scotland), George Birkbeck Norman Hill
It would be like marrying Pascal. — Middlemarch, George Eliot
Pascal's biblical quotations are often incorrect. — Pascal's Pensées, Blaise Pascal

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