clean room

noun

ˈklēn-ˌrüm How to pronounce clean room (audio)
-ˌru̇m
: a room for the manufacture or assembly of objects (such as precision parts) that is maintained at a high level of cleanliness by special means

Examples of clean room in a Sentence

The microchips are manufactured in a clean room.
Recent Examples on the Web For example, platforms like Pinterest benefit from hosting data clean rooms so that advertisers can leverage retailer data. Kevan Yalowitz, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024 Now the camera waits in its new clean room on the third level of the eight-level observatory. Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024 This picture taken on May 1, 2024 shows professors and students looking at a Minimal Fab, a small-scale semiconductor factory that does not require a clean room, at Tokyo University in Tokyo. Anniek Bao, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2024 There, technicians in clean room garb use robotic manipulators to reach into hot cells to process and package tiny amounts of SHINE’s first product: not moly-99, but lutetium-177. Adrian Cho, science.org, 18 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for clean room 

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Word History

First Known Use

1961, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of clean room was in 1961

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“Clean room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clean%20room. Accessed 28 Sep. 2024.

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