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pascal
This term is a technical unit of measurement used primarily in physics and engineering. It is named after Blaise Pascal, the French mathematician and philosopher, following the standard scientific convention of naming SI units after prominent scientists.
In professional scientific writing, the word is typically written in lowercase when referring to the unit, while the symbol Pa is always capitalized. As a standard unit of measurement, it is treated as an uncountable entity in many technical contexts, though it can be pluralized in general descriptive prose.
Meanings
Examples
One pascal is equal to one newton per square meter.
The atmospheric pressure is far too high to be measured in a single pascal.
We need to convert these measurements from kilopascals to pascals.
The sensor detects pressure changes as small as one pascal.
The vacuum pump reduced the internal pressure to nearly zero pascals.
A pascal is a relatively small unit of pressure.
A pascal is a relatively small unit of pressure.
The engineer calculated the stress on the beam in pascals.