clean room
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6.4
- noun
- /klin rum/
- Specialized
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sala limpia
- All clean components are leak tested on state-of-the-art UL500 Dry Leak Detectors in our Class 1000 clean room.
- clean room environment
It's currently undergoing some final checks in the clean room at Slack, but it's still missing the cooling system and filters.
- It's currently undergoing some final checks in the clean room at Slack, but it's still missing the cooling system and filters.
- I would be in clean rooms and wear special clean room suits and be in very high tech environments looking in microscopes on the hunt for something new.
Examples
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" From here on in, it's a class 100 clean room environment.
Fiction book (1994) -
So the lab is made up of two distinct layers, the security perimeter and the clean room.
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We got a clean room right here on the right.
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It's in the clean room.
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Max found the air shower over by the other clean room and showed him where it was.
Fiction book (2002) -
This was used as a temporary clean room for dangerous projects, but it's become my permanent lab over the years.
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A small, clean room, like an intensive-care unit.
Fiction book (2002) -
She's in a clean room, a sterile environment with strict isolation protocols.
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For example, everyone entering the cavernous underground laboratory must first shower and put on a clean-room garment.
Academic text (2001) -
The laboratory technician meticulously cleans the clean room to ensure no contamination affects the experiment.
Synonyms
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3.9
A completely clean place with no bacteria or germs, used in surgery and labs
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6.1
A very clean room that is free of dust and germs for lab work
A clean room where air moves in smooth parallel layers to keep tiny particles away during work like making microchips
How Clean
- Specialized
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3.9
- Specialized
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6.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built from 'clean' + 'room', so a B1 learner who knows both words will infer it refers to a room that is clean. However, the MWE denotes a technical, specialized controlled‑contamination environment (often written as the single word 'cleanroom'), a narrower and domain‑specific sense not fully predictable from everyday 'clean', so full understanding requires extra knowledge.
Etymology
Clean room comes from the idea of a clean room where even tiny dust and particles are kept out and people wear special suits to avoid bringing in dirt. That's why it means 'a room kept free of dust and tiny particles for sensitive work'.