Definitions

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  • adjective Containing very few impurities.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ clean

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Examples

  • He tried to capture some of the dust as it drifted through the superclean air, but it was quickly sucked away through the Clean Rooms contamination control system, designed to immediately dispose of any pollution.

    George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt Lucy 2009

  • He tried to capture some of the dust as it drifted through the superclean air, but it was quickly sucked away through the Clean Rooms contamination control system, designed to immediately dispose of any pollution.

    George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt Lucy 2009

  • Modernist housing, for example, with its brutalist angles and sheer blank walls, make us feel small and helpless; the superclean, cold spaces inside leave no place for us to snuggle in.

    The Achitecture of Fear Heather McDougal 2007

  • He tried to capture some of the dust as it drifted through the superclean air, but it was quickly sucked away through the Clean Rooms contamination control system, designed to immediately dispose of any pollution.

    George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt Lucy 2009

  • He tried to capture some of the dust as it drifted through the superclean air, but it was quickly sucked away through the Clean Rooms contamination control system, designed to immediately dispose of any pollution.

    George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt Lucy 2009

  • Each time I visited the Sloans, I'd search for signs of insanity, misery or even regret in their superclean home, yet I never seemed to find any.

    Having Kids Makes You Happy 2008

  • Silicon wafers are fabricated in superclean facilities (called “fabs”) in a pristine process that combines thin, polished, round six-to twelve-inch plates of silicon (formulated from sand vacuumed off Australian beaches) with tiny electrodes into integrated circuits.

    The Emerging Markets Century Antoine van Agtmael 2007

  • Despite the fact that technology in recent years has brought about superclean-burning coal-fired power plants, the Democrats and their allies, the environmentalists, are succeeding in destroying the coal industry here in Southwest Virginia and across the country.

    From On High 2007

  • One with unique physical features--such as sand comprised of tiny, star-shaped shells or a stunning mountain backdrop--where the water is superclean and the sand isn't in danger of vanishing because solid environmental management policies are in place?

    Breathtaking Beaches 2006

  • “We keep things superclean because we want to keep the animals healthy.”

    Rising Water P. J. Petersen 2002

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