the basic unit of pressure in SI and MKS systems, equal to the pressure of a force of one newton per square meter (0.00001 bar or 0.01 millibar): abbrev. Pa
Abbr. Pa A unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter.
Pascal A high-level programming language designed to support structured programming and used in teaching, applications, and systems programming.
Origin:
Origin: After Blaise Pascal
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French mathematician, philosopher and inventor. His early work included the invention of the adding machine and syringe, and the co-development with Fermat of the mathematical theory of probability. Later he became a Jansenist and wrote on philosophy and theology, notably as collected in the posthumous Pensées (1670).