cleaning

[ klee-ning ]

/ ˈkli nɪŋ /

an act or instance of making clean: Give the house a good cleaning.

Slang. an overwhelming or complete defeat, financial loss, or failure: Our team took a cleaning in yesterday's game.

Informal. killing(def 3).

Origin of cleaning

First recorded in 1655–75; clean + -ing¹

self-clean·ing, adjective

The carbons are large and are separated by a special compound intended to assist the self-cleaning feature.

Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 |Kempster Miller
In this the carbon blocks are cylindrical in form and specially treated to make them "self-cleaning."

Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 |Kempster Miller
A city's soot kills elms, they say; only plane trees, self-scaling and self-cleaning, live and grow and survive.

A Tramp's Notebook |Morley Roberts
It is self-cleaning and is easily adjusted by means of a handle on one side of the machine.

Illustrated Catalogue of Cotton Machinery |Howard & Bullough American Machine Company, Ltd.

They are all subjected to maintenance cycles, clean sources of energy, self-cleaning mechanisms, diagnostic routines.

The Civilization of Illiteracy |Mihai Nadin

self-cleaning

(of an oven, filter, etc) having a mechanism to clean itself