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1. Female U.S. Naval admiral who
coined the term "bug" for software problems
7. Chemical symbol
for erbium
9. Scheme used by aircraft to land in low visibility
conditions, abbr.
12. Simulation of a system
14. Connector
vendor in St. Louis, bought by FCI
16. International phonetic
alphabet letter "P"
17. 1.602E-19 Joules
18. A number
that can be expressed as a/b
21. One component of a complex
number, abbr.
22. Exponent that returns the original number
23. Electronics manufacturer with "meatball" logo
24. A time
reckoning standard, abbr.
25. Palm Pilot or Blackberry, abbr.
29. Min-to-max voltage of a waveform
30. Heterojunction Bipolar
Transistor
31. Type of current flow
33. Describes a smart
filter
36. Nanohenry, abbr.
37. Have a positive phase
wrt a reference
38. Wireline(tm) maker in Hollis, NH
40.
Engineer who experimented with extremely high voltages
42.
System On Chip
43. Picofarad, abbr.
45. Composed of crystals |
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2. Chemical symbol for argon
3.
Base 12 number system
4. Logic gate
5. Radiates
6.
Optical communications transmission medium
8. Group of data
to be saved
10. The "L" in ALC
11. Chemical symbol for
strontium
12. ELI the ICE ___
13. Resistor manufacturer
in Yankton, SD
15. Parameter of a filter that increases with
order
16. Chemical symbol for polonium (a popular poisoning
agent for the KGB)
19. Antenna, abbr.
20. Test Equipment
Connection, in Lake Mary, FL
25. A Greek letter
26. Logarithmic
unit of voltage
27. International phonetic alphabet letter
"T"
28. Units of liquid measure
29. Programmable logic
devices, abbr.
32. One of the "Cs" in CRC
34. A common
battery cell size
35. Chemical symbol for palladium
39.
Chemical symbol for arsenic
41. Colorado Springs military
school, abbr.
43. Chemical symbol for platinum
44. Semiconductor
and calculator company, abbr. |
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