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clean room

A room that is maintained to be free of contaminants, such as dust or bacteria, used in laboratory work and in the production of precision parts for electronic or aerospace equipment. Also called white room.

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clean′ room`

a room in which contaminants such as dust are reduced to create a sterile or nearly sterile environment for biological or manufacturing procedures.

[1960–65, Amer.]

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clean room - a room that is virtually free of dust or bacteria; used in laboratory work and in assembly or repair of precision equipment

white room

laminar flow clean room - a clean room free of all extraneous particles; used in fabricating microprocessors

room - an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view"

Translations

salle blanche

clean room

n (Ind) → Reinraum m

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(that is their housekeeper) made us a clean room and a good fire, and told us that, as Joseph was out at a prayer-meeting and Hareton Earnshaw was off with his dogs - robbing our woods of pheasants, as I heard afterwards - we might do what we liked.

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A clean room, a hot dish for dinner, and a bottle of not absolutely poisonous wine, are all I want tonight.

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Why, I should die comfortably in their own hospital--in a warm, clean room, with an attentive doctor--probably much more comfortably than I should at home.

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We did not get much to eat, nor that which was very good; but we had a good clean room, from the windows of which we could see what was go- ing on in the street, which was very much better than though we had been placed in one of the dark, damp cells.

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Within, he will remember wide, clean rooms, where nothing ever seems to be doing or going to be done, where everything is once and forever rigidly in place, and where all household arrangements move with the punctual exactness of the old clock in the corner.

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Smithfield, RI, August 10, 2018 --(PR.com)-- AIM Joraco, a premier manufacturer of the Toggle-Aire [R] line of precision pneumatic & manual toggle presses, is proud to announce their top-of-the-line clean room presses.

AIM Joraco Produces a Line of Clean Room Presses for Use in the Medical Industry

Aircraft group invests in clean room facilities PPA Group, a leading aircraft interiors specialist, has invested in the installation of a state-of-the-art clean room at its manufacturing facility in Deeside.

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Working with Tewkesbury-based full project design and build service specialist, Kramer Cold Clad, HART DOOR SYSTEMS reports it has supplied three Speedor Cleanroom doors for a Derby contract which required high-speed doors for an exceptional clean room environment.

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M2 EQUITYBITES-February 23, 2016-Spectris Acquires Swiss Clean Room Systems Firm CAS

Spectris Acquires Swiss Clean Room Systems Firm CAS

Exhaust-air conduits of the pneumatic valves are bundled and guided out of the clean room. The whole machine has a closed-circuit water-cooling system, nickel-coated platens with covered threaded mounting holes and a laminar-flow box that supplies air with low particle content to the mold area.