clean room

American  

noun

1. a room in which contaminants such as dust are reduced to a very low level by special procedures so that operations such as the manufacture and assembly of delicate equipment or the manipulation of biological materials can be performed effectively.

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clean room Scientific  

/ klēn /

1. A room that is maintained free of contaminants, such as dust or bacteria. Clean rooms are used in laboratory work and in the production of precision parts for electronic or aerospace equipment.

2. Also called white room

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Etymology

Origin of clean room

An Americanism dating back to 1960–65

Example Sentences

The whole lab is a sterile 'clean room', similar to what I have seen in aerospace facilities.

From BBC

They are all connected to the web, and everyone thinks that, oh it’s much better to work sitting at a desk instead of working in a clean room.

From Los Angeles Times

Now the camera waits in its new clean room on the third level of the eight-level observatory.

From Seattle Times

The team found that their unzipped cavities had comparable performance in capturing the quasiparticles to conventional cavities created in clean rooms.

From Science Daily

Such mass production would make it cheaper than typical ionizers that often require manual labor, need expensive hardware to interface with the mass spectrometer, or must be built in a semiconductor clean room.

From Science Daily