Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle
April 17, 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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RF Cafe - Engineering Crossword Puzzle for 4/17/2011


ACROSS DOWN
1. Unit of conductance
7. Heat is required to change a solid into a liquid or a liquid into a gas without change of temperature
12. System On Chip
13. Measure of voltage
14. Bulk Acoustic Wave
16. Ratio of circumference to diameter
17. Greek letter
18. Bands between RF and baseband
20. Chemical symbol for praseodymium
21. Automated Test Equipment (abbr.)
22. A type of capacitance or inductance
23. Opposite of MSB
25. Miscalculations
28. First name of Mr. Watson-Watt and Mr. Goddard
30. Government program to bring electricity to farms (abbr.)
31. Specialized mobile radio (abbr.)
33. Computer communication scheme (abbr.)
34. Mr. de Forest's first name
35. Chemical symbol for einsteinium
37. Capacitor type
39. Chemical symbol for cesium
40. Describes a servo, accelerometer, solenoid, etc.
41. Chemical symbol for selenium
42. Point in an revolving object's orbit that is closest to the body it is orbiting
44. Chemical symbol for gallium
46. International Reply Coupon (abbr.)
48. Powers pneumatic devices
49. U.S. military organization (abbr.)
51. ___-AZIMUTH telescope mount
52. ______ velocity - speed necessary to become free of the Earth's gravitational force
54. EM software company in N. Syracuse, NY
56. Digital storage oscilloscope (abbr.)
57. Karl Friedrich _____, after whom the unit of magnetic field strength is named
58. Logical negation operator
59. One component of a complex number (abbr.)
61. Early computer display screen recolution (abbr.)
63. Charged particle
64. Coefficient of temperature (abbr.)
65. Type of logic gate
67. Polymer having the elastic properties of natural rubber
70. Electronics components & batteries supplier based in Japan
71. Impurity in a semiconductor
72. High accuracy time reference element
1. Semiconductor On Insulator (abbr.)
2. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)
3. Similar to a laser, but at lower frequencies (pl.)
4. Electromagnetic interference (abbr.)
5. Chemical symbol for neptunium
6. What high frequency engineers design (2 wds.)
7. Chemical symbol for lutetium
8. Ticker symbol for Analog Devices
9. High-temp wire insulation
10. Chemical symbol for niobium
11. Transformer interwinding connection
12. Solid figure that has every point on its surface equidistant from its center
15. Transfers data to a disk
17. Permeability-tuned oscillator (abbr.)
19. Half of DSB
21. Amateur Radio Association (abbr.)
24. 10 decibels
26. Rotary electrical transformer used for measuring degrees of rotation (pl.)
27. Miniature RF connector
28. Radio Amateurs of Canada
29. Plane figure that has four straight sides, and four right angles
32. Extract information from a modulated signal
33. Illuminated
36. Rechargeable battery type (abbr.)
38. The "O" in CMOS
41. International phonetic alphabet letter "S"
42. Type of chart
43. Electrical overstress (abbr.)
45. Capture leading edge of a signal
47. Imaging device (abbr.)
48. Point in an revolving object's orbit that is farthest to the body it is orbiting
50. Impurity in a semiconductor that adds a mobile electron in the conduction band (pl.)
51. Antenna (abbr.)
53. File name extension for an ASCII file
55. Negation prefix
60. Last statement in a BASIC program
62. Circuit for maintaining constant voltage (abbr.)
63. U.K. equivalent of the IEEE
64. Time Division Multiplexing
66. Morse Code for "from"
68. PC follower
69. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.)
70. Upper frequency (abbr.)



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RF Cafe - Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for 4/17/2011