2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzles
Take a well-deserved break and try your hand at some of these goodies.
Every word in the RF Cafe crossword puzzles is specifically related to engineering,
mathematics, and science. There are no generic backfill words like many other puzzles
give you, so you'll never see a clue asking for the name of a movie star or a mountain
on the Russia-China border.
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1. Filter supplier located in Gaithersburg, MD 6. The fourth state of matter, which occurs in stars and
fusion reactors (pl.)
11. Chemical symbol for scandium 12. Unit of inductance (abbr.)
13. Printer resolution measure (abbr.) 15. Test equipment (abbr.)
16. Chemical symbol for thulium 17. Method of connecting redundant power supplies
19. The "D" in DARPA 22. Chemical symbol for polonium 23. Stock symbol for Microsoft 25. Stock
symbol for RF Micro Devices 26. Type of current flow (abbr.)
27. Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (abbr.) 28. Army-Navy specification prefix 29. Negative
temperature coefficient (abbr.) 30. One component of a complex number (abbr.)
31. Electromagnetic (abbr.) 33. Miniature RF connector 35. 10^1 numerical prefix
36. Ham's code for "Station is leaving the net." 37. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.)
39. RF design consultant in Rochester, NY 40. ______ Electronics - passive RF component vendor in
Clifton, NJ 41. Chemical symbol for tantalum
42. Powers pneumatic devices 43. A measure of receiver quality (abbr.) 44. Amateur Television (abbr.)
46. Return-to-Zero (abbr.) 48. PC follower 49. Mass unit (abbr., pl.) 50. Chemical symbol for xenon
52. Balun with both ports unbalanced (pl.) 53. Akin to an EE, CE, AE, etc. 54. Logic family 56.
Dual Tone Multi-Frequency 58. Network department (abbr.) 59. Engineering firm in Middletown, OH, that
provides RF subsystem design services 63. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors 64. Chemical
symbol for praseodymium 65. Type of modulation (abbr.)
66. Effective Radiated Power (abbr.) 67. Greek letter (micro) 69. Home state of Los Alamos lab (abbr.)
71. Lifetime failure rate curve 72. The central core of an atom
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1. Type of flip-flop
2. Official engineering change document (abbr., pl.) 3. Unit of length (abbr.) 4. Amplifier linearity
specification (abbr.) 5. Filter type (abbr.) 6. Part of a male connector 7. Automated Test
Equipment (abbr.) 8. Chemical symbol for selenium
9. Basic element 10. Type of component package (abbr.) 14. Describes a line that is at right angles to
the horizontal 18. ____ Solutions, RF component manufacturer located in Torrance, CA 20. Quickly
changing portion of waveform
21. Society of Civil and Structural Engineers (abbr.) 22. Circuit for firing a radar magnetron (abbr.,
pl.) 24. Coefficient of temperature (abbr.) 25. Chemical symbol for radium 29. _____ Microwave East
(part of L3-Com), RF component manufacturer located in Hauppauge, NY 30. Silicon _____, RFIC for radar
systems company in Frankfurt, Germany 32. Log onto a hard drive 34. Nickname given to a satellite
(pl.) 35. Device under test (abbr.)
38. Below ELF 45. Variable crystal oscillator (abbr., pl.) 47. International phonetic alphabet letter
"Z" 48. Mechanical engineering organization (abbr.) 49. ____ Microwave, RF component company in
FuJian, China 51. Chemical symbol for einsteinium
53. Chemical symbol for mendelevium 55. Gigantic star in Cetus
57. Software function selection mechanism 59. Nordic Mobile Telephone 60. One of the Ws in WWW 61.
Virtual Private Network
62. Miniature RF connector 64. Chemical symbol for lead 65. Unit of inductance(abbr.) 68.
Electrical safety organization (abbr.) 70. 1E6 nanoseconds |
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