"cleanroom" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-cleanroom.wav Forms: cleanrooms [plural], clean room [alternative], clean-room [alternative]
Etymology: From clean + room. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|clean|room}} clean + room Head templates: {{en-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 Translations (room or environment controlled to minimize airborne particulate matter): чиста стая (čista staja) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 無塵室 /无尘室 (Chinese Mandarin), puhdastila (Finnish), salle blanche [feminine] (French), Reinraum [masculine] (German), Reinstraum [masculine] (German), pomieszczenie czyste [neuter] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-cleanroom-en-noun-7x9g-nCK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Rooms Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 20 15 22 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 67 12 8 13 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 54 17 12 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 54 16 12 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 53 17 12 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 61 15 10 15 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 57 17 9 17 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 61 15 10 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 47 19 14 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 56 17 10 17 Disambiguation of Rooms: 50 20 10 20 Disambiguation of 'room or environment controlled to minimize airborne particulate matter': 90 6 4
  2. (attributive, chiefly computing) The method of copying a design by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing any copyrights. Tags: attributive
    Sense id: en-cleanroom-en-noun-FaC069F2 Categories (other): Computing Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  3. (software engineering, attributive) Being or relating to a software development process intended to produce software with a certifiable level of reliability. Tags: attributive
    Sense id: en-cleanroom-en-noun-~ySzrlWd Categories (other): Software engineering Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, software

Verb [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-cleanroom.wav Forms: cleanrooms [present, singular, third-person], cleanrooming [participle, present], cleanroomed [participle, past], cleanroomed [past], clean room [alternative], clean-room [alternative]
Etymology: From clean + room. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|clean|room}} clean + room Head templates: {{en-verb}} cleanroom (third-person singular simple present cleanrooms, present participle cleanrooming, simple past and past participle cleanroomed)
  1. (transitive, chiefly computing) To copy (a design) by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing any copyrights. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-cleanroom-en-verb-hxU18wHR Categories (other): Computing Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-27 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (a4e883e and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.