Definition of pascal
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: a unit of pressure in the meter-kilogram-second system equivalent to one newton per square meter
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Pascal
or PASCAL
: a structured computer programming language developed from Algol and designed to process both numerical and textual data
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The first known use of pascal was in 1956
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