Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle
October 16, 2011
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.

2011 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzles

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12/25/2011
12/18/2011
12/11/2011
12/4/2011
11/27/2011
11/20/2011
11/13/2011
11/6/2011
10/30/2011
10/23/2011
 10/16/2011
10/9/2011
10/2/2011
9/25/2011
9/18/2011
9/11/2011
9/4/2011
8/28/2011
8/21/2011
8/14/2011
8/7/2011		 7/31/2011
7/24/2011
7/17/2011
7/10/2011
7/3/2011
6/26/2011
6/19/2011
6/12/2011
6/5/2011
5/29/2011
5/22/2011		 5/15/2011
5/8/2011
5/1/2011
4/24/2011
4/17/2011
4/10/2011
4/3/2011
3/27/2011
3/20/2011
3/13/2011
 3/6/2011
2/27/2011
2/20/2011
2/13/2011
2/6/2011
1/30/2011
1/23/2011
1/16/2011
1/9/2011
1/2/2011

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Crossword with Engineering Theme, 10-16-2011 - RF Cafe


ACROSS DOWN
1. Opamp circuit for converting an inductance into a capacitance, and vice versa
6. The stuff in the solder core (pl.)
10. Stock symbol for National Semiconductor
11. Equalizer (abbr.)
13. 3-phase transformer configuration
15. Band between RF and BB
17. Logic family (abbr.)
19. Chemical symbol for neon
20. Chemical symbol for neptunium
21. 10^1 numerical prefix
22. International Telecommunications Union
24. 10^-2 numerical prefix
25. Electrical device for registering shaft positions
26. Chemical symbol for europium
28. 1e-6 mA
30. One port on a FET
34. Short waveform excursions from a reference state
38. A measure of receiver quality (abbr.)
39. Total Access Communication System (abbr.)
40. Type of radiation that has sufficient energy to knock electrons free from their orbits
44. Dielectric material used to form a hermetic seal for thru-wall conductors
46. Plural of 25A
48. Nearest and furthest points to the center of gravitational attraction for a body in orbit
51. Electrical safety organization (abbr.)
52. Mate a plug to a jack
53. Structures of columns and rows
56. Collection of electronic records (abbr.)
58. Galilean moon
60. Automatonic
64. Unintended frequency products from a mixer
67. Automatic network analyzer (abbr.)
68. Unit of inductance (abbr.)
69. Chemical symbol for tantalum
70. PC follower
71. Common plastic insulation type (abbr.)
74. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.)
75. Transformer interwinding connection
77. Akin to an EE, CE, AE, etc.
78. Negation prefix
80. Prefix meaning temperature-related
81. Trigger circuit to convert a given waveform to a square wave output		 1. Bushing used to direct the path of a pushrod
2. Chemical symbol for radon
3. File name extension for an ASCII file
4. Chemical symbol for thulium
5. Last statement in a BASIC routine
7. Modern battlefield technique (abbr.)
8. Short for synchronous
9. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
12. Unit of liquid measure (abbr.)
14. Printer output resolution unit (abbr.)
16. Number or digital inputs that an output can drive
18. Mr. de Forest's first name
20. National Television System Committee (abbr.)
22. Opposite of O.D.
23. Test equipment (abbr.)
27. Unit of time (abbr.)
29. Under sampled
31. Decompresses a computer file
32. Radio frequency interference (abbr.)
33. Quickly changing portion of waveform
35. Chemical symbol for lanthanum
36. Use the wheel on a mouse
37. Chemical symbol for einsteinium
41. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.)
42. Unit of time (abbr.)
43. Digital Enhanced Cordless Telephone
44. Electronics manufacturer with "meatball" logo
45. Chemical symbol for lawrencium
47. Mr. Piper's famous yellow airplane
48. Army-Navy specification prefix
49. Chemical symbol for selenium
50. Its chemical symbol is Er
54. Advanced Research Projects Agency (abbr.)
55. Chemical symbol for silicon
57. Securing devices
59. Output intercept point (abbr.)
61. Switch position
62. Stock symbol for Boeing
63. Graph
64. Official Space Shuttle designation (abbr.)
65. The "R" in BER
66. Network configuration
72. Abbreviation for minimum voltage
73. Type of memory
76. Related to FM by a differential
78. Unit of inductance (abbr.)
79. Chemical symbol for nickel


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Crossword with Engineering Theme, Solution, 10-16-2011 - RF Cafe