pascal : Idioms & Phrases

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blaise pascal

  • noun French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662)
    Pascal.
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pascal celery

  • noun any of several types of commercially grown celery having green stalks
    Paschal celery.
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pascal compiler

  • noun a compiler for programs written in Pascal
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pascal's law

  • noun pressure applied anywhere to a body of fluid causes a force to be transmitted equally in all directions; the force acts at right angles to any surface in contact with the fluid
    Pascal's law.
    • the hydraulic press is an application of Pascal's law
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pascal's law of fluid pressures

  • noun pressure applied anywhere to a body of fluid causes a force to be transmitted equally in all directions; the force acts at right angles to any surface in contact with the fluid
    Pascal's law.
    • the hydraulic press is an application of Pascal's law
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