Word.ws English Dictionary

self-cleaning

self-cleaning adjective: cleaning itself or requiring minimal cleaning effort.

Adjective

self-cleaning (not comparable)

  1. Cleaning itself or requiring minimal cleaning effort.
    • After cooking the thanksgiving turkey we appreciate the self-cleaning oven as it gets really hot and burns off the splattered grease.
    • The letters "SC" inscribed on the smokebox door of a locomotive denote that it is fitted with a self-cleaning smokebox.1951 January, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive Markings”, in Railway Magazine, page 73

self-cleaning meaning in Tamil

self-cleaning in Tamil

தன் தூய்மை

Origin of self-cleaning

From self- + cleaning.

Questions about self-cleaning

What does self-cleaning mean?
Self-cleaning means cleaning itself or requiring minimal cleaning effort.
What is self-cleaning in Tamil?
Self-cleaning in Tamil is தன் தூய்மை. See Self-cleaning meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is self-cleaning?
Self-cleaning is an adjective.

Words near self-cleaning in the dictionary

  1. self-checks-out
  2. self-circumcision
  3. self-citation
  4. self-citations
  5. self-clamp
  6. self-cleaning
  7. self-clear
  8. self-cleared
  9. self-clearing
  10. self-clears
  11. self-clinging

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: self-cleaning (page history and authors); self-cleaning (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “self-cleaning.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/self-cleaning. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.