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blaise
[bleyz;; french blez] /bleɪz;; french blɛz/ (show ipa), 1623–62, french philosopher and mathematician.
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by the side of two such remarkable men, i might place the opinion of a third not less eminent than they—blaise pascal.
the religious sentiment daniel g. brinton

the word “conversion,” however, is too forcible to be applied at this point to blaise pascal himself.
pascal’s penses blaise pascal

blaise pascal, a french divine, died; noted for his mathematical abilities.
the every day book of history and chronology joel munsell

blaise pascal, the french mathematician, composed at sixteen a tract on the conic sections.
how to succeed orison swett marden

blaise pascal, when a boy of twelve, whose education had been carefully restrained, once asked his father what is geometry.
the religious sentiment daniel g. brinton

blaise pascal, that colossal genius, has been probably their most successful enemy.
the gunpowder plot and lord mounteagle’s letter henry hawkes spink jr.

the pensées of blaise pascal had been published, posthumously, in 1670.
journal of jasper danckaerts, 1679-1680 jasper danckaerts

they may be cl-ssified as follows:—(i.) addition machines; the first invented by blaise pascal .
encyclopaedia britannica, 11th edition, volume 4, part 4 various

blaise pascal experimented here in the density of air; hence the presence of his statue below.
a wanderer in paris e. v. lucas

blaise pascal, one of the greatestpg 87 geniuses of all times, was attaching himself to the jansenists.
history of france charlotte m. yonge

noun
the derived si unit of pressure; the pressure exerted on an area of 1 square metre by a force of 1 newton; equivalent to 10 dynes per square centimetre or 1.45 × 10–4 pound per square inch pa
noun
blaise (blɛz). 1623–62, french philosopher, mathematician, and physicist. as a scientist, he made important contributions to hydraulics and the study of atmospheric pressure and, with fermat, developed the theory of probability. his chief philosophical works are lettres provinciales (1656–57), written in defence of jansenism and against the jesuits, and pensées (1670), fragments of a christian apologia
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a high-level computer programming language developed as a teaching language: used for general-purpose programming

high-level computer programming language, 1971, named for french scholar blaise pascal (1623-1662), who invented a calculating machine c.1642.

pascal pas·cal (pā-skāl’, pä-skäl’)
n.
a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter.
pascal, blaise 1623-1662.
french mathematician, physicist, and philosopher who, with pierre de fermat, developed the mathematical theory of probability. he also contributed to the development of differential calculus, and he invented the mechanical calculator and the syringe. the pascal unit of pressure is named after him.
pascal
(pā-skāl’, pä-skäl’)
the si derived unit used to measure pressure. one pascal is equal to one newton per square meter.