1. (Physique) Unité de pression.
2. (Informatique) Langage de programmation.
Si unit (symbol Pa) of pressure, equal to one newton per square meter. It replaces bars and millibars (105 Pa equals one bar). It is named for the French mathematician Blaise Pascal.
(French acronym for program appliqué ŕ la selection et la compilation automatique de la littérature) a high-level computer-programming language. Designed by Niklaus Wirth (1934– ) in the 1960s as an aid to teaching programming, it is still widely used as such in universities, but is also recognized as a good general-purpose programming language. It was named for 17th-century French mathematician Blaise Pascal.
A unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter; SYN. Pa.