cleanroom

plural cleanrooms · alternative clean room · alternative clean-room

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

2. attributivecomputingThe method of copying a design by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing any copyrights.
3. attributivecomputingBeing or relating to a software development process intended to produce software with a certifiable level of reliability.

present singular third person cleanrooms · participle present cleanrooming · participle past cleanroomed · past cleanroomed · alternative clean room · alternative clean-room

1. transitivecomputingTo copy (a design) by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing any copyrights.

   Based on OSF's Motif, this technology was “clean roomed” and is not in violation of any Apple copyright or patent […]

   1990, InfoWorld, volume 13, numbers 1-8, page 40