hygienic

Etymology

From French hygiénique. Displaced earlier hygienal.

adj

  1. Pertaining to hygiene; clean, sanitary.
  2. (computing, slang, of a macro) Whose expansion is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.

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