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.
Recent Examples on the Web
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.
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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
The director of pricing for a telecommunications company being acquired told me during our interview, his experience of being invited to a clean room.
—Jennifer J Fondrevay, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
The sample carrier will then be flown to Houston's Ellington Field on the next day, where it will be put into a clean room.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 July 2023
Collegial chatter abounds because some people entering the clean room for the first time need help with the process.
—Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
The facility would make medical products and offer clean rooms for medical research.
—Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
What hooked him were Cornell’s high-end facilities available to students studying semiconductor engineering and nanofabrication—in particular, the industry-grade semiconductor clean rooms.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Jan. 2024
Now, the 70,000-square-foot (6,500 m2) facility in Brownstown, Michigan, houses 80 employees and enough robots, clean rooms, and all sorts of high-tech equipment to make Ironman blush.
—Robin Warner, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2024
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
The director of pricing for a telecommunications company being acquired told me during our interview, his experience of being invited to a clean room.
—Jennifer J Fondrevay, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
The sample carrier will then be flown to Houston's Ellington Field on the next day, where it will be put into a clean room.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 July 2023
Collegial chatter abounds because some people entering the clean room for the first time need help with the process.
—Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
The facility would make medical products and offer clean rooms for medical research.
—Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
What hooked him were Cornell’s high-end facilities available to students studying semiconductor engineering and nanofabrication—in particular, the industry-grade semiconductor clean rooms.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Jan. 2024
Now, the 70,000-square-foot (6,500 m2) facility in Brownstown, Michigan, houses 80 employees and enough robots, clean rooms, and all sorts of high-tech equipment to make Ironman blush.
—Robin Warner, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2024
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“Clean room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clean%20room. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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