Definitions

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  • adjective Exceptionally clean.

Etymologies

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ultra- +‎ clean

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Examples

  • Melting and sieving 106 cubic feet of "ultraclean" snow that fell near a French-Italian Antarctic camp from 1955 to 1970 (before people moved in), the team reports the discovery of two micrometeorites, "exhibiting a fine-grained, fluffy texture with no evidence for substantial heating during atmospheric entry."

    Comet clues buried in Antarctic snow 2010

  • To environmentalists, "ultraclean" means vehicles running on natural gas or electricity.

    Keep Holding Your Breath 2008

  • Originally, President Bush proposed requiring 1 million "ultraclean" vehicles on the roads by the end of the decade.

    Keep Holding Your Breath 2008

  • Moreover, "ultraclean" is in the eye of the beholder.

    Keep Holding Your Breath 2008

  • But the House bill requires that, by 1994, municipalities in southern California operate only 150,000 ultraclean city buses, trucks and cabs.

    Keep Holding Your Breath 2008

  • One astrobiologist in the article went looking for bugs in the “clean room” and discovered that not only are there plenty of bacteria there, but the ultraclean environment is ideally suited to select for hardy bacteria that can survive the rigors of spaceflight!

    Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Infecting our neighbors 2004

  • B, and blues influences that pervade the band's music, and the ultraclean sound that became the group's hallmark.

    European Tribune European Tribune 2010

  • Its 39,000 square feet of ultraclean workspace equals about 81 yards of a football field, and is divided into three huge "ballrooms," each of which is crammed full of Applied's multimillion-dollar machines, alongside pipes, tubes, spare parts, tanks of caustic chemicals,

    Wired Top Stories Dylan Tweney 2010

  • The MINI E, in turn, stands for ultraclean and efficient driving qualities of the future in the spirit of sustained mobility.

    Aktuellste Pressemeldungen der PresseBox 2010

  • Imagine BP releasing an ad talking about their ultraclean fuel or a John Terry family planning pamphlet.

    Arseblog 2010

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