Definition of Clean room

1. Noun. A room that is virtually free of dust or bacteria; used in laboratory work and in assembly or repair of precision equipment.

Exact synonyms: White Room
Specialized synonyms: Laminar Flow Clean Room
Generic synonyms: Room

Medical Definition of Clean room

1. A room in which contamination is limited to a specific maximum level to facilitate the manufacture of sterile and high purity products, to protect personnel, equipment, and products from microbial contamination and to prevent the escape of hazardous particles into the environment. (14 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clean Room

clean as a whistle
clean bill of health
clean bomb
clean bowl
clean bowled
clean bowling
clean bowls
clean coal
clean code
clean codes
clean copy
clean house
clean living
clean out
clean potato
clean room (current term)
clean sheet
clean sheets
clean shell
clean skin
clean slate
clean someone's clock
clean sweep
clean sweeps
clean up
clean up one's act
cleanabilities
cleanability
cleanable
cleane

Literary usage of Clean room

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Directory of Federal Laboratory and Technology Resources: A Guide to (1993)
"There are three optical laboratories with multiple isolation tables and clean room capability for Class 10K conditions, HEPA filtered air and exceptional ..."

2. HVAC and Chemical Resistance Handbook for the Engineer and Architect: A ...by Tom Arimes by Tom Arimes (1994)
"Higher efficiency ULPA (Ultra Low Penetration Air) filters can boost our clean room standards to Class A Comparison of Particle Sizes Range of Removal ol ..."

3. Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars, National Research Council (U.S.). Space Studies Board, National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (2006)
"Beagle 2 Life- 2003 The probe was assembled aseptically Lander/ Detection in a class-100 clean room. Some Rover Instruments components were sterilized with ..."

4. Report of the State Board of Health Upon the Sanitary Condition of Factories by Massachusetts State Board of Health (1907)
"Good (new) floor, and comparatively clean. Room well painted. Sink conditions good. ... High-studded, clean room, covered with metallic sheathing. ..."

5. Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicle by Roger E. Bilstein (1999)
"Tubing, valves, fittings, components, and subassemblies moved in a steady steam through various "clean-room" environments for checks and cleansing to ..."

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