self-cleaning
adjEtymology From self- + cleaning.
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Cleaning itself or requiring minimal cleaning effort.
- After cooking the thanksgiving turkey we appreciate the self-cleaning oven as it gets really hot and burns off the splattered grease.
- The letters "SC" inscribed on the smokebox door of a locomotive denote that it is fitted with a self-cleaning smokebox.1951 January, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive Markings”, in Railway Magazine, page 73:
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- A further disadvantage of the Crosti system is that it is impossible to fit a self-cleaning smokebox.1959 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The British Railways Class "9" 2-10-0s”, in Trains Illustrated, page 422: