: 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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Exiting the clean room and leaving the telescope behind is a little like exiting an operating room, passing back through successively less sterile chambers, doffing mask and outer garments, and rejoining the world of dirt and dust and grit and grime. Jeffrey Kluger/greenbelt, TIME, 8 Feb. 2025 Privacy-first clean rooms should take center stage, securely integrating datasets to move beyond historical behaviors and third-party data. Dani Nadel, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025 The Parker Solar Probe in a clean room in Titusville, Fla., in 2018, after the installation of its heat shield. Denise Chow, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2024 As browsers and devices continue their privacy clampdown, advertisers are exploring alternatives including clean rooms, data collaboration platforms and other privacy-enhancing technologies to ensure data can be used ethically and responsibly. Sergii Denysenko, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for clean room 

Word History

First Known Use

1961, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of clean room was in 1961

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“Clean room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clean%20room. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.

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