パスカル
Meanings
1
SI unit of pressure; one pascal equals one newton per square meter. Used in physics and engineering.
Atmospheric pressure is about 1013 hectopascals.
2
A high-level programming language designed by Niklaus Wirth, influential in structured programming education.
I learned Pascal in a university class.
3
Refers to the 17th-century French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher.
Pascal said, 'Man is a thinking reed.'
Usage patterns
- 〈数〉パスカル... pascals (expressing a pressure value)
Standard atmospheric pressure is about 101,325 pascals.
- パスカルでプログラムを書くto write a program in Pascal (the programming language)
I wrote a program in Pascal for the first time in a university class.
Expressions
- パスカルの三角形Pascal's triangle