Pascal Synonyms

pă-skăl, pä-skäl
A unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. p.a.
French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Blaise Pascal

Words Related to Pascal

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Pascal Sentence Examples

  • She desired indeed to join the convent, but her father, who returned to Paris with the dignity of counsellor of state, disapproved of the plan, and took both brother and sister to Clermont, where Pascal remained for the greater part, of two years.

  • In that case, all who accept a revelation without professing to understand its content would require to be ranked as mystics; the fierce sincerity of Tertullian's credo quia ab-' surdum, Pascal's reconciliation of contradictions in Jesus Christ, and Bayle's half-sneering subordination of reason to faith would all be marks of this standpoint.

  • Twelve years after the Areopagitica appeared Pascal's Provincial Letters (1656-16J7).

  • Thus Nicomedes invented the conchoid; Diodes the cissoid; Dinostratus studied the quadratrix invented by Hippias; all these curves furnished solutions, as is also the case with the trisectrix, a special form of Pascal's limacon.

  • These are the two points on which Pascal's thought turns.

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