7/28/2006 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

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ACROSS 1. Not passing production tests 7. Isolator, oscillator vendor in Tampa, FL 11. Creates a beveled edge 13. A length of transmission line that is open or shorted at one end 16. Positive voltage lead color 17. 10-Gb Attachment Units Interface, abbr. 20. Oscillator manufacturer in Whippany, NJ (abbr.) 21. Unix, Linux or Windows 23. 1E6 ns 24. Cathode Ray Tube 25. Home state of Los Alamos lab 26. Part of a software FOR loop 27. Adds 29. Volts divided by resistance 31. Electrode spacing in a spark arrestor 32. Millimeter, abbr. 33. Rare earth laser material 35. Symbol for helium 36. Graphics workshop software 37. Components 38. Semiconductor and calculator company, abbr. 39. Parts ____, aka bill of material 40. Unit of time, abbr. 41. Corneal receptor that provides night vision 43. Asynchronous Communication Interface Adapter, abbr. 45. An ellipse has two of them 46. Type of current flow 47. 12 in. 48. Intermodulation Distortion, abbr. 49. Number closely approximated by 377/120 50. Integrated Circuit, abbr. 51. Chemical formula for the frequency-determining element in a microwave oscillator 53. Antenna power abbreviation, abbr. 55. Automatic Gain Control 57. Font without serifs 59. Antenna capacitive element 62. Type of multistranded magnet wire 63. Adjusted the specification for temperature	DOWN 1. An RF band 2. Powers pneumatic devices 3. Action _____ are assigned in status meetings 4. Semiconductor lamps 5. Infrared, abbr. 6. Unit of time, abbr. 8. Type of flip-flop 9. Capacitor manufacturer in Huntington Station, NY 10. Runge-_____ method 12. A BPF spec., abbr. 14. Branch of science involving the application of the laws of physics to biological phenomena 15. Highly energetic atomic nuclei or other particles travelling through space at a speed approaching that of light 17. Form of radiation first observed by the German physicist Roentgen 18. Asynchronous Transfer Mode, abbr. 19. Threaded metal device embedded in plastic case to accepting a bolt 22. One port of a mixer 28. A 3rd-degree equation 30. Angular distance between one event and another in a regularly recurring cycle 31. One state of matter 33. Spin on an axis 34. Chemical symbol for beryllium 36. Microelectronics manufacturer, abbr. 37. Ratio of circumference to diameter 39. LED, incandescent, fluorescent, etc. 40. Peripheral Component Interface, abbr. 42. Number system using the digits 0 to 7 44. Type of digital filter, abbr. 45. Electromagnetism in the visible spectrum 49. International phonetic alphabet letter "P" 52. Exponent that returns the original number 54. Galilean moon 56. Software engineering tool, abbr. 58. Symbol for tin 59. Test Equipment, abbr. 60. Logic gate 61. Time Delay, abbr.
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