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.
All of these crossword puzzles were created using the fabulous
Crossword Express (now called "Magnum Opus") software.
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ACROSS
1. ______ Electronics - passive RF component vendor in Clifton, NJ 4. Environmental barrier device (pl.)
7. Small unit of capacitance (abbr.) 9. Boob tube (abbr.) 10. Chemical symbol for lutetium 11. Volt,
meter, pint, pound, eg. 13. Type of component package (abbr.)
15. Fuel additive 18. _______ Radar, RFIC company in Frankfurt, Germany 21. Tool for removing insulation
from a wire 24. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors
25. Unit of time (abbr.) 26. ____ Labs, Wireline(tm) maker in Hollis, NH, now part of Spectrum Microwave
30. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.) 31. Finite-Element Model 33. Switch position
34. Design for Manufacturability (abbr.) 35. User Datagram Protocol 38. Small DIP package (abbr.) 40.
BlackBerry or Jordana for example (abbr.) 41. _____ factor, the peak-to-average waveform value 43.
End-to-end joint 46. 1.602E-19 Joules 47. Unit of inductance
49. ____RF, passive RF component manufacturer in Huntersville, NC 50. Ham radio organization (abbr.) 52.
Chemical symbol for europium 54. CDMA Development Group (abbr.) 56. Chemical symbol for radon 57. 3 GHz
to 30 GHz 58. Used logic gates
60. Chemical symbol for palladium
62. Part of a FOR loop 65. 3 MHz to 30 MHz 66. Chemical symbol for lithium 68. Chemical symbol for
einsteinium 69. Personal Handy Phone System (abbr.) 70. Quickly changing portion of waveform 71.
Uppermost surface 72. Keyboard key 74. Integrated Services Digital Network (abbr.) 76. Uppermost
surface (pl.) 79. Unit of weight 80. Short for synchronous
81. Chemical symbol for radium 82. Ham's code for "Answer in prearranged order." 85. Chemical symbol for
nobelium 86. Vector multiplication that returns a scalar value (pl.)
87. Precision approach radar (abbr.)
DOWN
1. Permeability-tuned oscillator (abbr.)
2. PCB mask exposing ray (abbr.) 3. Primary U.S. standards organization founded in 1918 (abbr.) 4. Type of
microwave diode 5. Mr. Blattenberger of RF Cafe 6. Force a signal to an insignificant level 7. Software
storage unit 8. Unit of length (abbr.) 12. Chart types 14. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.) 16.
Thin Shrink Small Outline Package (abbr.) 17. Method of connecting redundant power supplies (pl.) 19. Have
a positive phase wrt a reference
20. Shorthand for oxygen 22. Filter manufacturer located in Gaithersburg, MD 23. Used a systematic
approach to locate the cause of a fault in an electronic circuit or system
27. Ground fault interrupter (abbr.) 28. Electromagnetic (abbr.) 29. RF ____, RF/microwave consulting
company in Rochester, NY 32. Converts electrical energy into mechanical energy
36. 10^1 numerical prefix 37. Chemical symbol for lawrencium 39. Ham's code for "What is your location?"
41. A gaseous process that deposits insulating films or metal onto a wafer at elevated temperature (abbr.)
42. Equalizer (abbr.) 44. Temporary Engineering Change document (abbr.) 45. The constellation in which
Canopus is located 46. Electronics Industry Association (abbr.) 48. Chemical symbol for neodymium 50.
_______ Factor, antenna manufacturer in Merlin, OR; also, an EM radiating structure 51. Part of this
website's title 53. 300 MHz to 3 GHz 55. Flip-flop control input 59. Positive voltage lead color 60.
Greek letter often used to represent an angle 61. Type of spread spectrum that does not use frequency hopping
(abbr.) 63. Opposite of I.D. 64. ______ Telecom, waveguide components manufacturer in Melbourne,
Australia; also, a mathematical quantity that has both direction and magnitude
66. Linux Operating System (abbr.) 67. Internet protocol (abbr.) 71. Attenuator topology (hyph.) 73.
Termination 75. Chemical symbol for dysprosium 77. Method of connecting redundant power supplies 78.
Ham's code for "Unable to copy you." 82. Unit of liquid measure (abbr.) 83. Chemical symbol for argon
84. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.) 85. 1e-6 mA
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