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AC: Alliterating Current
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AI: Artificial Inelegance
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ALE: Atomic Lager Epitaxy
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ANOVA:
episode of PBS science show.
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Avalanche Breakdown:
the interlude where you only hear the rumbling, just before the
screams.
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BAW: Bulk
Acrostic Wave
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Bipolar Transistor:
Manic conduction one moment, sullen resistance the next.
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Break Before Make:
What happens when the kids are at home.
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Buck Regulator:
the strap the put on horses before they're released to the rodeo
floor.
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CAD: Computer Addled Design
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CCK: Cereal
Clock
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Clock and Data Recovery: digging them out from the pile on your desk.
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Crosstalk:
Tea Party folks on healthcare reform.
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DAC:
Digital-to-Analogy Converter
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DDR: Dance
Dance Revolution
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Digipot:
Smoked narcotic drug popular with avatars.
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Dropout: a
regulator that would rather smoke than go to school.
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DUT: Device,
Undertested
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FAQ:
Frequently Avoided Questions
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FIR: Finite
Impulse Response Filter;
IIR: Teenage
Filter
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Forward Error Correction: hitting the brakes.
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Freewheeling Diode:
only knows one way to have fun.
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Global Positioning System: Putting the Earth in its place.
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h Bar: The dive on the corner of Teilchenstrasse and
Wellestrasse where Planck used to hang out with his school friends.
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Headroom: danged if I know, I'm short so I never have to
worry about it.
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Image Rejection:
How you feel about portraits when you're over 50.
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Inductive Reasoning:
how coils think.
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JTAG: Joint
Test Action Group, with working groups for ankles, knEE acronymss, elbows.
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MAC: Medium
Access Control; LAC: Low Access Control; HAC: High Access Control
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Metastable Comparator: compares metastability.
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Monotonic:
Helps Monos feel better.
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MOS: Stuff
that grows under trees.
CMOS: you will if you
look for it.
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Native Transistors - primitive electron hunter-gatherers
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Open Collector:
the fellow with the plastic bag scrounging in the trash cans.
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Operational Amplifier: one that isn't broken. Duh.
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OS: Open,
Sesame!
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Path Loss:
pre-GPS hiking risk.
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PMW: Pulse
Width Moderation.
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PWM Controller: Well, somebody has to keep those
pornographic whimsical manipulators in line.
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Relaxation oscillation: repetitive motion of your butt
when you turn on the massage chair.
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RMS: Rude
Mean Square
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S/H: Green
Stamps. OK, you have to be as
old as I am to get that one.
Ouch.
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SDR: Software Deified Radio
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Secure Hash:
the one way in the back of the refrigerator.
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Single Sideband:
Mobius strip
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SPC:
Sadistical Process Control
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Spreading Gain:
characteristic of butter and cream cheese.
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Statistical Quality Control: Make a product unlikely to fail before you find a new job.
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THD: Totally Harmless Distortion
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Thermocouple:
Two thermos.
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Transformer:
Optimus primary and Optimus secondary.
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Tri-state:
When a circuit makes an effort to work as designed.
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Turnon Time:
about 11 PM Saturday night.
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Twisted Pair:
Empress Theodora and the Marquis de Sade.
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Upconverter:
Gravity.
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UWB: UltraWhy
Band. It's a philosophical modulation scheme.
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VCR: Stupid
business school technology example
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Verilog: Sartre's locked-in-a-room hell or Kafka's
turning-into-an-insect damnation, hard to say.
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VOIP: Fan
voiceovers on copyrighted videos.
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WAN: Pale
imitation of LAN data services.
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Weber: burger
grill.
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WEP: Wasn't
Especially Private
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XAUI:
exclamation, as in "Yowie Xaui!"
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ZIF: K-Y
Jelly.
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