clean rooms
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pluralof clean room.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
clean roomnouna 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.
Example Sentences
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Technicians wearing bunny suits put the machines together in clean rooms pumped with purified air to prevent contamination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
“Previously, capacity was constrained by clean room space, but this limitation is being addressed through the acceleration of new clean rooms and the re-purposing of existing ones,” they added.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 5, 2026
The team found that their unzipped cavities had comparable performance in capturing the quasiparticles to conventional cavities created in clean rooms.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2024
Those living in tents were notified weeks earlier that clean rooms with a locking door were available and that the encampment would be coming down.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
“It’s ninety percent cheaper to produce than an ordinary chip because the whole thing is sealed in so you don’t need clean rooms for production.”
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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