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| | 10/8/2008 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle |
Note: A standard for crossword puzzles is when all words in a clue are capitalized, the solution
is the abbreviation or acronym for that clue; e.g., Alternating Current = AC.
2008 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzles
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| ACROSS 1. Connector strain relief 4. Area outside the passband 7. Microhenry, abbr. 8. Circuit designed to copy a current through one active device by controlling the current in another active device, 2 wds. 15. Chemical symbol for nobelium 17. Last stage in transmitters, abbr., pl. 18. Coordinated Universal Time, abbr. 20. Chemical symbol for radium 22. Chemical symbol for gold 23. Chemical symbol for lithium 25. Electronics manufacturer with "meatball" logo 26. Switch position 27. Gun safety and education organization, abbr. 28. Abbreviation for acknowledge (also a common word for Bill the Cat) 29. Greek letter 30. Chemical symbol for scandium 32. Chemical symbol for silver 33. Test equipment, abbr. 35. Chemical symbol for zirconium 36. Printed Wiring Board, abbr. 38. Time Division Multiplexing 40. Ham's term for self-assembled projects 41. Having no resistive component 42. Creating a code version of a semiconductor device 46. Alcohol, epoxy and gasoline, for example 51. Effective Radiated Power 53. Hub of the solar system 54. 30 kHz to 300 kHz 56. Galilean moon 57. Chemical symbol for cesium 59. Foot, abbr. 60. Capacitor manufacturer in Huntington Station, NY 61. Digital encoding of the transmission mode in the vertical sync portion of an SSTV image, abbr. 62. Display type 63. Original Equipment Manufacturer 64. Test point, abbr. 66. One component of a complex number, abbr. 67. Type of logic gate 69. Chemical symbol for tantalum 70. Chemical symbol for beryllium oxide 72. Automatic network analyzer, abbr. 74. Chemical symbol for europium 75. Super glue 76. Network department, abbr. 79. The "E" in ATE 80. RF region defined at less than wavelength/(2*pi) | DOWN 1. Wireless product specification for the 2.4 GHz band 2. Chemical symbol for cobalt 3. C++, Java, BASIC, Fortran, etc. 4. Use software for circuit or system design 5. Home state of Los Alamos lab 6. Units of electrical charge 9. One type of electron spin 10. Radio Amateurs of Canada 11. Type of flip-flop 12. Chemical symbol for ruthenium 13. Stock symbol for Raytheon 14. Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania region 16. Unintentionally impress a signal on a transmission line 19. Inventor of the Kodak camera 21. Automatic Frequency Control 22. Amateur Radio Association 24. Current-voltage phase mnemonic 25. Unit of frequency 31. Unit of signal reflection, abbr. 34. RF systems company in Rochester, NY, abbr. (now owned by GE) 36. Chemical symbol for lead 37. Chemical symbol for beryllium 38. Part of a FOR loop 39. 1E6 nanoseconds 42. Its chemical symbol is Mn 43. Front edge of a wing, abbr. 44. International Reply Coupon 45. Chemical symbol for neptunium 46. Particle accelerator developed by the American physicists Lawrence and Livingston 47. Chemical symbol for einsteinium 48. Maximum Usable Frequency 49. One port of an amplifier 50. Used software for circuit or system design 52. A trigonometry function that is the reciprocal of the sine 55. Network file transfer protocol, abbr. 56. Type of digital filter, abbr. 58. Special diode that can be switched, abbr. 59. Field Effect Transistor 65. Government program to bring electricity to farms, abbr. 68. Rádio Nacional de Angola, abbr. 70. Next to 71. Switch position 72. Chemical symbol for aluminum 73. PC follower 77. Chemical symbol for lutetium 78. Chemical symbol for iron |
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