pascal

1 a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter [syn: Pa]

2 French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662) [syn: Blaise Pascal]

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

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English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

1. A given name used in medieval England; today occasionally borrowed from French.
2. The French mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal.
3. The Pascal programming language.

Translations

Derived terms

• Pascal's triangle
• Pascal's theorem

French

Proper noun

1. A given name of origin.
2. A surname derived from the given name.

Related terms

• female given names: Pascale, Pascaline

German

Proper noun

1. A given name borrowed from French.

Pascal may refer to:

People

history of, and people with the given name and surname "Pascal"

• Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), French mathematician and philosopher.

Fictional characters

• Pascal, a character in the video game Animal Crossing: Wild World
• Pascal, the main character in the film, The Red Balloon
• Pascal, a character in the television series Beauty and the Beast, portrayed by Armin Shimerman.
• Pascal, a character in the novel: Felidae (novel) along with the movie: Felidae (film). Voiced by Klaus Maria Brandauer
• Pascal Curious, a character from ''The Sims 2.

Music

• Pascal an alias of Flip & Fill, dance music producers Graham Turner and Mark Hall

Other uses

• Pascal (crater), a lunar crater
• Pascal distribution, a special case of the negative binomial
• Pascal's Law, a physics principle relating pressure at various points in an incompressible fluid
• Pascal's mystic hexagram
• Pascal (programming language), a programming language developed in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth
• Pascal's triangle, a geometric arrangement of the binomial coefficients in a triangle
• Pascal (unit), a unit of pressure equivalent to one newton per square meter
• Pascal's Wager, a philosophical argument for belief in God
• Pascal Photocoagulator, a pattern scan laser used in ophthalmology
• J. Pascal's Furniture and Hardware, a Montreal hardware and furniture store trading under the name "Pascal"
• PAS/CAL, a pop band from Detroit, Michigan
• Pascal Press, an Australian book publisher
• Pascal Publishing House in Poland
• Paskal, a Malaysian naval special forces unit

See also

• Paschal (meaning Easter, and names) disambiguation page