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
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The microchips are manufactured in a clean room.
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The instrument has been mostly ready for a 2018 launch date and has ever since been sitting together with the rover in a clean room of the lead contractor Thales Alenia Space, waiting to launch.
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Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 30 June 2025
Cotterill: The technology of the clean room is with a third party.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
The camera was assembled in a clean room at the observatory before installation.
—Jonathan Corum, New York Times, 19 June 2025
The documentary gives viewers inside access to the exclusive spaces where the telescope was made, from mirror assembly sites to clean rooms at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 15 June 2025
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Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 30 June 2025
Cotterill: The technology of the clean room is with a third party.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
The camera was assembled in a clean room at the observatory before installation.
—Jonathan Corum, New York Times, 19 June 2025
The documentary gives viewers inside access to the exclusive spaces where the telescope was made, from mirror assembly sites to clean rooms at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 15 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for clean room
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“Clean room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clean%20room. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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