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clean-room

clean-room is the alternative form of cleanroom.

Meaning of cleanroom

Noun

cleanroom (plural cleanrooms)

  1. A room or environment that is controlled in such a way as to minimize airborne particulate matter, typically for the purpose of fabricating sensitive electronic or other devices.
    Synonyms:
    white room
  2. (attributive) The method of copying a design by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing any copyrights.
  3. (attributive) Being or relating to a software development process intended to produce software with a certifiable level of reliability.

See all 4 meanings of cleanroom

Forms of clean-room

pluralclean-rooms

Questions about clean-room

What is clean-room the alternative form of?
Clean-room is the alternative form of cleanroom.

Words near clean-room in the dictionary

  1. clean-handedly
  2. clean-handedness
  3. clean-label
  4. clean-limbed
  5. clean-living
  6. clean-room
  7. clean-rooms
  8. clean-shaved
  9. clean-shaven
  10. clean-timbered
  11. clean-up

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