December 1, 2008 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle


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RF Cafe - Science & Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

2. Connector strain reliefs

9. Workplace safety group, abbr.

12. Chemical symbol for argon

13. Logic gates

14. Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier

16. Precision landing system, abbr.

17. Stock symbol for Boeing

18. Type of current

20. Chemical symbol for selenium

21. Government program to bring electricity to farms, abbr.

22. Manufacturer of project boxes

23. Enhanced Graphics Adapter

25. Archaic reference to the air and void of space

28. Rechargeable battery type, abbr.

30. Chemical symbol for beryllium oxide

32. Synchronous Digital Hierarchy

33. Power supply vendor in Mansfield, MA

36. Chemical symbol for manganese

37. Chemical symbol for erbium

39. Coder/decoder

40. Minutes of Use

42. RĂ¡dio Nacional de Angola, abbr.

44. The "E" in EHF

46. Its chemical symbol is W

50. Type of distribution, squared

51. Communication between stations by reflecting the radio waves off of the ionosphere

52. Automated Test Equipment

53. Chemical symbol for tantalum

55. Switch position

56. Modulation type, abbr.

57. Resistor vendor in Berne, IN

58. Class of spread spectrum, abbr.

60. The design component of total product cost, abbr.

61. Semiconductor and calculator company, abbr.

62. Co-channel rejection ratio

63. A bridge circuit used for accurate electrical measurements, named after its inventor

DOWN

1. Charge storage devices, English style

3. A common battery cell size

4. Chemical symbol for chromium

5. Pertaining to the sun

6. Stock symbol for Harris Communications

7. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

8. Termination

10. Chemical symbol for helium

11. Agilent's EE design software

15. Parabolic antenna-to-waveguide interface component

16. U.K. equivalent of the IEEE

17. Illumination device

19. Common gateway interface

21. _____&Schwarz

22. Stock symbol for Boeing

24. Applied Computational Sciences, abbr.

26. Helium, iron, silicon, and uranium, for example

27. A class in Object Oriented Programming that is capable of storing other objects

29. Type of data conversion device, abbr.

31. 1/6 inch printer's measure; Electromagnetic

34. In geometry, what kind of an angle has less than 90 degrees

35. Shorthand for liquid oxygen

38. Chemical symbol for radon

41. Coordinated Universal Time, abbr.

43. Basic element

45. Greek letter

47. One type of electron spin

48. One port on a FET, pl.

49. Official Space Shuttle designation, abbr.

51. Type of cryptographic algorithm that takes a string and converts it to a numeric code.

54. Amplifier Solutions Corporation, abbr.

57. Cathode Ray Tube

58. Deutsche Industrie Normenausschuss

59. Chemical symbol for scandium

60. 1e-6 mA

61. Part of a FOR loop


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