7/28/2006 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

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RF Cafe engineering & science crossword puzzle

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1. Not passing production tests

7. Isolator, oscillator vendor in Tampa, FL

11. Creates a beveled edge

13. A length of transmission line that is open or shorted at one end

16. Positive voltage lead color

17. 10-Gb Attachment Units Interface, abbr.

20. Oscillator manufacturer in Whippany, NJ (abbr.)

21. Unix, Linux or Windows

23. 1E6 ns

24. Cathode Ray Tube

25. Home state of Los Alamos lab

26. Part of a software FOR loop

27. Adds

29. Volts divided by resistance

31. Electrode spacing in a spark arrestor

32. Millimeter, abbr.

33. Rare earth laser material

35. Symbol for helium

36. Graphics workshop software

37. Components

38. Semiconductor and calculator company, abbr.

39. Parts ____, aka bill of material

40. Unit of time, abbr.

41. Corneal receptor that provides night vision

43. Asynchronous Communication Interface Adapter, abbr.

45. An ellipse has two of them

46. Type of current flow

47. 12 in.

48. Intermodulation Distortion, abbr.

49. Number closely approximated by 377/120

50. Integrated Circuit, abbr.

51. Chemical formula for the frequency-determining element in a microwave oscillator

53. Antenna power abbreviation, abbr.

55. Automatic Gain Control

57. Font without serifs

59. Antenna capacitive element

62. Type of multistranded magnet wire

63. Adjusted the specification for temperature

DOWN

1. An RF band

2. Powers pneumatic devices

3. Action _____ are assigned in status meetings

4. Semiconductor lamps

5. Infrared, abbr.

6. Unit of time, abbr.

8. Type of flip-flop

9. Capacitor manufacturer in Huntington Station, NY

10. Runge-_____ method

12. A BPF spec., abbr.

14. Branch of science involving the application of the laws of physics to biological phenomena

15. Highly energetic atomic nuclei or other particles travelling through space at a speed approaching that of light

17. Form of radiation first observed by the German physicist Roentgen

18. Asynchronous Transfer Mode, abbr.

19. Threaded metal device embedded in plastic case to accepting a bolt

22. One port of a mixer

28. A 3rd-degree equation

30. Angular distance between one event and another in a regularly recurring cycle

31. One state of matter

33. Spin on an axis

34. Chemical symbol for beryllium

36. Microelectronics manufacturer, abbr.

37. Ratio of circumference to diameter

39. LED, incandescent, fluorescent, etc.

40. Peripheral Component Interface, abbr.

42. Number system using the digits 0 to 7

44. Type of digital filter, abbr.

45. Electromagnetism in the visible spectrum

49. International phonetic alphabet letter "P"

52. Exponent that returns the original number

54. Galilean moon

56. Software engineering tool, abbr.

58. Symbol for tin

59. Test Equipment, abbr.

60. Logic gate

61. Time Delay, abbr.


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