clean room
noun
ˈklēn-ˌrüm 
-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.
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Engineers custom built a sealed clean room with a 24-foot ceiling, and anyone entering had to don head-to-toe white bunny suits and blue latex gloves, lending day-to-day activities the ambience of a crime scene.
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Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024
To that end, the few humans who do play a role here must first put plastic booties over their shoes and take an air shower, as this portion of assembly is a clean room.
—Robin Warner, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2024
In the clean room, personnel wore bunny suits covering their clothing, shoes, and hair to ensure that fabric fibers, hair, and skin cells didn’t contaminate the container.
—WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023
The main attraction is the window into the clean room, where tours can see the spacecraft itself.
—Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
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Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024
To that end, the few humans who do play a role here must first put plastic booties over their shoes and take an air shower, as this portion of assembly is a clean room.
—Robin Warner, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2024
In the clean room, personnel wore bunny suits covering their clothing, shoes, and hair to ensure that fabric fibers, hair, and skin cells didn’t contaminate the container.
—WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023
The main attraction is the window into the clean room, where tours can see the spacecraft itself.
—Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
See all Example Sentences for clean room
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“Clean room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clean%20room. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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