Advanced   Some of the articles may contains words that those outside of the engineering world might not be too familiar with. Here are the words that are used throughout this issue. 11 . Amplitude Greatness of size; magnitude. The maximum absolute value of a periodic curve measured along its vertical axis. The maximum absolute value reached by a voltage or current waveform. Found in Engineering Rock and Roll: A Casual Introduction to Signal Processing . View Article 12 . Antigens Molecules that are recognized as foreign invaders by the immune system and thus elicit an immune response. They include viruses and bacteria, but are also found on the surfaces of substances that are unknown to the body. In essence, they assist the immun. Found in The Search for a Blood Substitute . View Article 13 . ARPANET A large wide-area network created by the United States Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) in 1968; served as a testbed for new networking technologies, linking many universities and research centers. Found in Search Engines: Guiding You in the Digital World . View Article 14 . Atomic Clock A precision clock that depends for its operation on an electrical oscillator regulated by the natural vibration frequencies of an atomic system (as a beam of cesium atoms). Found in The Science of Time Travel . View Article 15 . ATP The major energy source within cells. Found in Doping in Sports: Blood Oxygenation Enhancement . View Article 16 . Autograft Describes tissues taken from a person to be transplanted within the same person. Found in The Development of Ossicular Replacement Prostheses for the Treatment of Conductive Hearing Loss . View Article 17 . Avatar In graphics, a representation of a person for use in communication. Found in Photo-Realism: An Exact Science? . View Article 18 . Axonometric A view in which the object is drawn with its horizontal and vertical axes to scale while curved lines and diagonals are distorted. Found in Curves of Steel: CATIA and the Walt Disney Concert Hall . View Article 19 . Ballistics The study of the effects firing on a firearm or bullet, cartridge, etc. Found in Ballistics of Modern Firearms . View Article 20 . Bandwidth A range of radio frequencies which is occupied by a modulated carrier wave, which is assigned to a service, or over which a device can operate, or the capacity for data transfer of an electronic communications system. Found in Immersed in Reality . View Article   Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | Next

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