pascal

Other forms of pascal

plural

pascals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pascal

What does pascal mean?

pascal means "a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pascal?

pascal has 2 syllables: pa-scal. The stress falls on "scal". In IPA it is /pæˈskæl/.

What is another word for pascal?

Close synonyms include Pa, Blaise Pascal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pascal a common word?

pascal is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.