Electrical Engineering Crossword Puzzle
March 6, 2016
For the sake of avid cruciverbalists amongst us, each week I create a new crossword puzzle that has a theme related to engineering, mathematics, chemistry, physics, and other technical words. You will never be asked the name of a movie star unless he/she was involved in a technical endeavor (e.g., Hedy Lamar). Enjoy!
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acr. = acronym, abbr. = abbreviation, pl. = plural, wds. = words
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1. Signal path with very low or 0 ohms of impedance (2 wds.) 8. General Mobile Radio Service (abbr.) 9. Band between RF and BB 11. Effective frontal area presented to a microwave interrogation system (abbr.) 12. Semiconductor On Insulator (abbr.) 14. Asynchronous Communication Interface Adapter (abbr.) 17. Unit of length (abbr.) 19. Network department (abbr.) 20. Open a fuse 22. Type of high frequency circuit substrate (abbr.) 24. 1e-6 mA 26. Network configuration type 28. Satellite milieu 29. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 31. Length times width 33. __ + 23 Down, the world's greatest engineering website 34. Antenna type derived from simple weighted wires dropped from Zeppelin airships 36. Plug-in for computer bus 38. Max or min voltage of a waveform (abbr.) 39. International phonetic alphabet letter "X" 41. Differential Phase Shift Keying 43. Local Oscillator (abbr.) 45. Junk e-mail 47. Application Specific Integrated Circuit (abbr.) 49. Chemical symbol for einsteinium 51. Branch of the armed forces 53. Network device that takes commands from another similar device 54. Min______ and Max_____, in a Karnaugh map 56. Digital intelligence 58. Opposite of I.D. 59. Type of microwave frequency source using element #39 as the core (abbr., pl.) 61. Lacing ____, for bundling cables 63. Morse Code for "from" 64. Chemical symbol for rhodium 66. Type of programmable device (abbr.) 67. Miniature RF connector 68. Precision approach radar (abbr.) 69. Electromagnetic (abbr.) 72. Total Access Communication System (abbr.) 73. Unit of wire size (2 wds., pl.) |
1. Miniature RF connector (pl.) 2. Stock symbol for Harris Communications 3. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.) 4. Device to assist in the performance of a chore (pl.) 5. Galilean moon 6. Volts, meters, pints, pounds, eg. 7. Semiconductor and calculator company (abbr.) 8. Test equipment that causes a meter decrease (null) when near resonant circuits (3 wds.) 10. Small unit of capacitance (abbr.) 12. Chemical symbol for antimony 13. Islands On The Air (Ham term) 15. Chemical symbol for chlorine 16. Adjacent Channel Power Ratio (abbr.) 18. Instrument designed to measure temperature (pl.) 21. World Amateur Radio Conference 23. 33 Across + ____, the world's best engineering website 24. Non-return to zero (abbr.) 25. Highest point 27. A disk operation 30. Automatic Packet Position Reporting System (abbr.) 32. Advanced Research Projects Agency (abbr.) 35. International phonetic alphabet letter "P" 37. Type of spread spectrum that does not use frequency hopping (abbr.) 40. 36 inches 42. International phonetic alphabet letter "K" 44. The "V" in VLF 46. Million multiply accumulate operations (abbr.) 48. Software drafting tool (abbr.) 50. Internet mail protocol (abbr.) 52. Microwave frequency source using element #39 as the stabilizing component (abbr., pl.) 55. Relating to the sun 57. Strong cable covering 60. Chemical symbol for scandium 62. Logarithmic ratio (abbr.) 63. Type of data conversion device (abbr., pl.) 65. Chemical symbol for helium 68. Programmable logic device (abbr.) 70. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.) 71. Electrical safety organization (abbr.) 72. Semiconductor and calculator company (abbr.) |
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