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cleanrooming

cleanrooming is the present participle and gerund of cleanroom.

Meaning of cleanroom

Verb

cleanroom (third-person singular simple present cleanrooms, present participle cleanrooming, simple past and past participle cleanroomed)

  1. (transitive) To copy (a design) by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing any copyrights.
    • Based on OSF's Motif, this technology was “clean roomed” and is not in violation of any Apple copyright or patent […]1990, InfoWorld, volume 13, numbers 1-8, page 40

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Questions about cleanrooming

What is cleanrooming the present participle and gerund of?
Cleanrooming is the present participle and gerund of cleanroom.

Words near cleanrooming in the dictionary

  1. cleannesses
  2. cleanout
  3. cleanouts
  4. cleanroom
  5. cleanroomed
  6. cleanrooming
  7. cleanrooms
  8. cleans
  9. cleans and jerks
  10. cleans down
  11. cleans house

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