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Pascal   /pæskˈæl/   Listen
Pascal

noun
1.
A unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter.  Synonym: Pa.
2.
French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662).  Synonym: Blaise Pascal.
3.
A programing language designed to teach programming through a top-down modular approach.



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"Pascal" Quotes from Famous Books



... glad of it. I would rather tell you myself. My father has, today, laid his commands on me to marry the Sieur de Pascal." ...
— Saint Bartholomew's Eve - A Tale of the Huguenot WarS • G. A. Henty
... SASSOU-NGUESSO (since 25 October 1997, following the civil war in which he toppled elected president Pascal LISSOUBA); head of government: Prime Minister Isidore MVOUBA (since 7 January 2005) cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the president elections: president elected by popular vote for a seven-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held 10 March 2002 (next ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... in bed, over the little white volume of Pascal which went with her everywhere, "whether it is really good for a woman to live with a man who is morally her superior, as Richard is mine. It makes one so dependent. I suppose I feel for him what my mother and women of her generation felt for Christ. It just shows that one can't ...
— The Voyage Out • Virginia Woolf
... extension and multiplication. Our finest modern canals are scarcely smaller, and certainly capable of more uninterrupted, safe and heavy navigation, than many of the rivers which have figured in history, and which Pascal so graphically described as "moving roads that carry us whither ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 • Various
... Mariage de Figaro, Dante's Inferno, Petrarch's Sonnets, all the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the romances of the Middle Ages, the History of France, and of Rome, etc., etc. Excepting Bossuet's Histoire des Variations and Pascal's Provinciales, I do not think there are many books left to read if you insist on eliminating all those in which illicit love ...
— Parisians in the Country - The Illustrious Gaudissart, and The Muse of the Department • Honore de Balzac


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