2/3/2003 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

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 Engineering & science crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1 Information exchange

8 Audio Frequency

9 Reduced Instruction Set Computer

11 Negation prefix

13 3dB attenuation frequency

17 Super glue, abbr.

19 Symbol for tin

20 Overcurrent protection devices

21 Internet mail protocol

22 It's the "S" in OATS

23 Semiconductor lamp

25 Half of Vpp for a sinewave

26 Precision landing system, pl.

27 Added potting compound to a module

29 Electronics manufacturer with "meatball" logo

30 Plug-ins for computer buses

31 Computer communication schemes

32 Technical Order, abbr.

33 Chemical symbol for arsenic

34 Compliment of a zero

35 Mixer manufacturer in Denver, CO

37 Opposite of I.D.

38 Repeated a software routine

39 The "R" in DRC, singular

41 Integrated circuit

43 1/000 of an inch

44 Compiler directive in Pascal

45 Describes a blown fuse

47 Hard drive contents

49 Local Oscillator

50 Greek letter

51 Gave direction to

52 A digital "0"

53 Switch configuration

56 Galilean moon

57 Si, GaAs, GaN, Ge, SiGe, etc.

DOWN

1 Group of stars

2 ELI the ICE ___

3 300 kHz to 3 MHz

4 Logic family

5 Infrared

6 Lubricants

7 Unit of time

10 Closed Circuit Television

12 Switch position

13 Stops a process

14 Employs

15 Test equipment, abbr.

16 Electric, magnetic and gravitational are examples of these

18 Rms current times rms voltage

20 Computer storage units

22 Information-carrying medium

23 A U.S. defense company that sold ICBM stabilization technology to China in the mid1990s

24 Direct digital synthesis

27 1/000 of an amp

28 2-terminal square-law semiconductor

30 Popular graphics program

32 Recording

34 North and south features of magnets

35 Volt Ohmmeter

36 Opposite of O.D.

39 Have dominion over

40 Employed

42 8088s, 8086s, 80486s, etc.

46 Current summing point

47 First-in, first-out

48 Opposite of O.D.

49 Local Oscillator

52 Sample group

54 *PS

55 Transverse Magnetic

56 Integrated circuit


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