[ghporter]

This should be pretty simple-for some people.

1. What is a "pes anserinus"? Where is it?

2. What is the difference between a "fuse" and a "fuze"?

3. What is a "bovie"?

4. What does it mean to "be riffed"?

5. What does the word "swage" mean? Give three applications.

6. What is an "NGT", and why is it used instead of an "OGT"?

7. What do you put a clevis pin in? Why?

8. What is a "seven level" and what is it used for? Who shouldn't have one?

9. What is a "blouser" and where is it used?

10. What device has a base, an emitter, and a collector? What does "the collector" collect? Be specific.

Extra points for identifying the domain the jargon comes from. Answers later...

[RAILhead]

The only ones I missed were 3 and 6, seriously. I AM TEH WINNAR!!1!

[Oisín]

Wow. I don’t know the answer to a single of those questions, except no. 2. I kind of have a vague idea of what general domain we’re in here (mostly based on the fuze/fuse and clevis pin—the latter of which I looked up in an English-to-Danish dictionary and for which I got no less than three Danish words I’d never seen before, either), but other than that, I’m completely lost.

Just tried looking up ‘swage’, as well. It gave me a word that does seem very vaguely familiar, but I wouldn’t be able to point at one. As for ‘blouser’, I can’t even find a definition of that, so I’d have to guess it’s just a thingamajig that makes clothes flop/fold out over something (whyever such a device would be needed for anything).

[RAILhead]

Do I need to spoil everyone's fun? Since, you know, so many people seem to be interested?

[ghporter]

I am kind of disappointed. Only a couple of people seem to have actually tried... I figured we'd all have fun with wildly incorrect guesses and intentionally funny non-guesses. Sigh.

[Ghoser777]

1. What is a "pes anserinus"? Where is it?

It sounds like a combination of two things in my pants.

[RAILhead]

I've been playing with a number 10 all day today, and I think I have it just right by using a 50k linear potentiometer. I haven't taken a swage my 1290NS yet, though.

[ghporter]

Originally Posted by Ghoser777 

It sounds like a combination of two things in my pants.

Not even close.

[cjrivera]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

Not even close.

well, technically, it usually is found in your pants (pants legs)...

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

I am kind of disappointed. Only a couple of people seem to have actually tried... I figured we'd all have fun with wildly incorrect guesses and intentionally funny non-guesses. Sigh.

In the interests of allowing my self to be made fun of...

Here are my guesses:

Originally Posted by ghporter 

This should be pretty simple-for some people.
1. What is a "pes anserinus"? Where is it?
2. What is the difference between a "fuse" and a "fuze"?
3. What is a "bovie"?
4. What does it mean to "be riffed"?
5. What does the word "swage" mean? Give three applications.
6. What is an "NGT", and why is it used instead of an "OGT"?
7. What do you put a clevis pin in? Why?
8. What is a "seven level" and what is it used for? Who shouldn't have one?
9. What is a "blouser" and where is it used?
10. What device has a base, an emitter, and a collector? What does "the collector" collect? Be specific.
Extra points for identifying the domain the jargon comes from. Answers later...

1. (It sounds like a disgusting body part, and knowing what you are studying I am tempted to answer with a disgusting body part, but after reading your other questions I am tempted to believe it is an electronics-type quiz, so I will stick with my initial answer idea.) Is it the official term for the anal gland on a dog?
2. A "fuse" is a sacrificial part of an electronic circuit that burns up in an attempt to save the rest of the circuit. A "Fuze" is a yogurt based drink?
3. A little cow?
4. Guitars are "riffed".
5. I know "swag" is free stuff given out by companies to promote something... but "swage" has me stumped.
6. I have no idea.
7. Does it hold your trailer hitch in the hitch receiver?
8. Is it a secret level for the Masons?
9. A blouser is a guy who stuff parachutes?
10. A RADAR system? The "collector" collects the emitted RADAR signal?

Extra Credit: Aeronautical Electronics?

Not a single term was googled whilest taking this quiz.

[RAILhead]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

This should be pretty simple-for some people.

1. What is a "pes anserinus"? Where is it?

2. What is the difference between a "fuse" and a "fuze"?

3. What is a "bovie"?

4. What does it mean to "be riffed"?

5. What does the word "swage" mean? Give three applications.

6. What is an "NGT", and why is it used instead of an "OGT"?

7. What do you put a clevis pin in? Why?

8. What is a "seven level" and what is it used for? Who shouldn't have one?

9. What is a "blouser" and where is it used?

10. What device has a base, an emitter, and a collector? What does "the collector" collect? Be specific.

Extra points for identifying the domain the jargon comes from. Answers later...

1. One of the nerve branches on YOUR FACE.
2. A fuse breaks a circuit, fuze is to join.
3.
4. Torn a new one, basically.
5. A tool to shape metal.
6.
7. Through a pin, to hold something while letting it rotate freely.
8. Sufism.
9. Keeps your pants attached to your boots.
10. Transistor.

[moonmonkey]

Originally Posted by RAILhead 

The only ones I missed were 3 and 6, seriously. I AM TEH WINNAR!!1!

Pride goes before a fall

Originally Posted by RAILhead 

1. One of the nerve branches on YOUR FACE. its your foot
2. A fuse breaks a circuit, fuse is to join. they are the same
2.its a surgical instrument
6 is a tube either going in your nose or your oral orifice (mouth to you)

[Sherman Homan]

2) A fuze is the detonator in an explosive. It seems paradoxical, but "fuse" does mean the same as in breaking a circuit or joining a circuit, it is a "fuse" as long as it intact.
10) Collectors are used in transistors to receive the electrons that are sent from the "emitter", but only those electrons that make it through the "base" (which was originally called a "gate" in a vacuum tube).

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by moonmonkey 

Pride goes before a fall

Indeed.

‘Fuse’ and ‘fuze’ are NOT the same. ‘Fuze’ is an alternative spelling of ‘fuse’ only in the sense where it denotes a piece of cloth/rope/other material on a bomb or similar where you set fire to one end and it eventually sets fire to the other end (especially if it’s of the more complex type with electronic parts and whatnots).

When talking about electrical fuses and fusing into something else (joining, blending, melting into something else), ‘fuse’ is the only possible spelling.

That was the only one I actually knew.

(Oh, and Fuze is a kind of soft drink, which I don’t think Fuse is )


I can translate ‘pes anserinus’, but that doesn’t mean I know what it is. Directly translated, it means ‘goose foot’. Medical term for elephant’s foot, perhaps?

I thought at first that the domain would be some kind of household appliance electronics or something, but now I’m leaning more towards some kind of medical/surgery domain...

[RAILhead]

Originally Posted by moonmonkey 

Pride goes before a fall

Wrong, mostly.

1. Pes anserinus ("goose's foot") is the anatomic term used to describe two different structures: Pes anserinus (leg), Pes anserinus (facial nerve)

2. Yes, I goofed this one.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by RAILhead 

1. Pes anserinus ("goose's foot") is the anatomic term used to describe two different structures: Pes anserinus (leg), Pes anserinus (facial nerve)

Pes anserinus (facial nerve)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The pes anserinus ("goose's foot") is the term for the branch point of the facial nerve (extratemporal) after it leaves the stylomastoid foramen. It is also known as the "parotid plexus".
This division takes place within the parotid gland.
Commonly, it divides into the temporozygomatic and cervicofacial branches (several variations).

Well, that makes it all clear as day.



(A very foggy day in mid-December somewhere north of the Polar Circle, that is.)

[ghporter]

The pes anserinus is either the common insertion of three leg muscles (the sartorius, gracilis, and semitendinosus) on the inside aspect of the knee, or a structure which is also known as the parotid plexus of the facial nerve. In both cases, the structure is named for its similarity in appearance with a goose's foot. Please note that anatomists are a pretty odd bunch; there are a large number of structures in the human body that are named for some perceived similarity to the shape of the breast. Those old anatomy dudes needed to get out more!

A fuse is an electrical device that melts and opens a circuit when a certain amount of current flow is exceeded. A fuze can be either a flare-like device (a railroad fuze) or a mechanism for detonating a military explosive (a bomb fuze). "A fuse" and "to fuse" are not the same; welding "fuses" metal parts (usually), but the verb and noun are very different.

A partial correct answer for bovie has been provided, but not a complete answer. What does it do?

Partial correct answers for clevis pin has been provided, but only its application, not what it goes in.

And finally (for now) a partially correct answer for #10 has been posted. Remember that I said to be specific...

Thanks for playing so far!

[analogika]

On number ten, I was thinking of a valve (vacuum tube), but if it's a transistor, then what's emitted and collected would be electrons.

[besson3c]

I like pes dispensers, but I guess that has nothing to do with anything.

[analogika]

PEZ, dude.

PEZ.

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by analogika 

PEZ, dude.

PEZ.

Maybe where you're from.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by analogika 

PEZ, dude.

PEZ.

Did you have to find the Hitler-flavoured one?

[analogika]

It took a while to find it online, yes. (didn't feel like uploading my local copy)

You realize that's a fake, and that the PEZ company (which is German, btw) actually went after the guy who created that?

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by analogika 

It took a while to find it online, yes. (didn't feel like uploading my local copy)

You realize that's a fake, and that the PEZ company (which is German, btw) actually went after the guy who created that?

I knew the Hitler PEZ* was fake, but not that PEZ was German, actually. I thought it was American.



* I just wrote “Hitler fez” there at first. Hitler Does Egypt, anyone? Latest Bollywood success?

[theyoda3]

#10 is not just a transistor, it is a bipolar junction transistor (BJT). It gets its name from the junction of n-doped silicon with p-dope silicon and p-doped silicon with n-doped silicon (npn), but can be formed the other way around as pnp. It needs to be differentiated because there are also metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). These transistors have a drain, source, gate, and sometimes back-gate. MOSFET comes in 2 flavors of nMOS and pMOS, which corresponds to doping of the conduction channel, but they can be combined together in complementary configuration called CMOS... look in Wikipedia or some place to see what I mean. MOSFETs are becoming the industry standard in microelectronics because they are cheaper than BJTs, but I think BJTs are still around because they are a little faster, they can handle higher frequency signals. That will probably be changing in a few years.

[ghporter]

Originally Posted by theyoda3 

#10 is not just a transistor, it is a bipolar junction transistor (BJT).

Ding ding ding!!!!!!! Exactly correct. analogika gave a partially correct answer for what the collector collects. He said "electrons," but technically that's not true; the technically correct answer is "charge carriers" because there are two different polarities of junction transistors: NPN and PNP, and while the charge carriers in one are electrons, the other's carriers are "holes" (potential places for an electron go go).

[analogika]

Originally Posted by Oisín 

I knew the Hitler PEZ* was fake, but not that PEZ was German, actually. I thought it was American.



* I just wrote “Hitler fez” there at first. Hitler Does Egypt, anyone? Latest Bollywood success?

No - historical fact:



And "PEZ" is shortened from "PfeffErminZ".

[SVass]

As someone who got his EE degree in 1960, I won't spoil the fun. However, a "valve" got my interest. I actually still have a vacuum tube preamp and stereo with the latter handbuilt by my father long ago. What is a gate?? Is that the grid?
sam

[ghporter]

The gate controls the conduction between the source and drain, much as the base controls conduction between emitter and collector, or as the control grid in a triode controls current between plate and anode.

[SVass]

Okay, the gate/source/drain sounds like a hydraulics system component. I believe that "riffed" is now used to refer to "reduction in force" in industry whereas in the past it was a military acronym (as in Abbreviated Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning). sam who also served as a pfc and was then "promoted" to pfc

[ghporter]

SVass is correct. Reduction In Force is the process by which industry or the military deletes a position (or manpower authorization in the military) and typically offers the victim a lesser job. In the military, officers are often offered enlisted jobs so they can complete their 20 years of service and retire-though not all take advantage of this because they feel enlisted jobs are "beneath them." Not the best idea most of the time, as many senior enlisted people have more education than their superior officers.

Oh, and the gate/source/drain to hydraulics analogy in field effect transistors is intentional; the gate acts like squeezing the diameter of a hose between the source and drain.

[ghporter]

Ok, due to the (er hem) "overwhelming demand" for the answers, here it is:

What is a "bovie"? (electrical cautery device-domain: medical-surgery)

What is "the dash one"? (the basic operating manual for an aircraft-domain: military aviation)

What does it mean to "be riffed"? (have one's position eliminated-military officers are offered an enlisted position so they can complete their careers-domain: military and business)

What device has a base, an emitter, and a collector? What does "the collector" collect? Be specific. (a junction transistor, it collects charge carriers-domain: electronics)

What is a "pes anserinus"? Where is it? (literally "goose foot" it's the common insertion of the sartorius, gracilis, and semitendinosus muscles at the inside of the knee, or another name for the parotid plexus of the facial nerve-domain: human anatomy)

What do you put a clevis pin in? Why? (typically in a shackle, to connect two items securely, such as in a hitch-domain: mechanics, and "pulling stuff with a truck" )

What does the word "swage" mean? Give three applications. (a metal forming technique that alters the shape of an object by pressing it into a die. drawing tubing on a mandrel, forming ends or pipe, applying thimbles on cables, forming saw blade teeth, forming bullets, bonding metal and rubber components, securing suture to needles-domain: metal forming and manufacturing)

What is the difference between a "fuse" and a "fuze"? (the former is an electrical device that protects a circuit against overload by melting at a set level of current flow, while the latter is a device that is used to set off an explosive.-domains: electrical and explosives)

What is an "NGT", and why is it used instead of an "OGT"? (a nasogastric tube is used to provide feedings directly into the stomach via a tube inserted through the nose. An orogastric tube has a similar purpose but is inserted through the mouth. This obstructs the mouth and interferes with speaking and sometimes breathing.-domain: medicine)

What is a "seven level" and what is it used for? Who shouldn't have one? (aside from a designated Air Force skill level, it is a fine bladed screwdriver used to make adjustments. No operator or aircrew member (except appropriate maintenance aircrew members) should have one.-domain: Air Force (enlisted))

What is a "blouser" and where is it used? (an elastic band used to properly shape the cuff of a pair of trousers to present a "bloused" appearance in/above boots-domain: military)

I hope this was enjoyable... I had fun making it up anyway.