'Exposure' definitions:
Definition of 'exposure'
(from WordNet)
noun
Vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain; "exposure to the weather" or "they died from exposure";
noun
The act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience; "she denounced the exposure of children to pornography"
noun
The disclosure of something secret; "they feared exposure of their campaign plans"
noun
Aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces; "the studio had a northern exposure"
noun
The state of being vulnerable or exposed; "his vulnerability to litigation"; "his exposure to ridicule" [syn: vulnerability, exposure]
noun
The intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate; "he used the wrong exposure"
noun
A representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material [syn: photograph, photo, exposure, picture, pic]
noun
The act of exposing film to light
noun
Presentation to view in an open or public manner; "the exposure of his anger was shocking"
noun
Abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open)
Definition of 'Exposure'
From: GCIDE
- Exposure \Ex*po"sure\ (?;135), n. [From Expose.]
- 1. The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt. [1913 Webster]
- The exposure of Fuller . . . put an end to the practices of that vile tribe. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state of being exposed or laid open or bare; openness to danger; accessibility to anything that may affect, especially detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold, to inconvenience. [1913 Webster]
- When we have our naked frailties hid, That suffer in exposure. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc. "Under a southern exposure." --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
- The best exposure of the two for woodcocks. --Sir. W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Photog.) The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'exposure'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acquaintance,
- airing,
- apocalypse,
- apparition,
- appearance,
- appearing,
- arising,
- ASA exposure index,
- aspect,
- attitude,
- avatar,
- azimuth,
- ballyhoo,
- baring,
- bearing,
- bearings,
- blurb,
- bright light,
- bringing to light,
- casual discovery,
- catching,
- celebrity,
- celestial navigation,
- chance discovery,
- coming,
- coming into being,
- coming-forth,
- common knowledge,
- communicating,
- communication,
- contact,
- cry,
- currency,
- danger,
- daylight,
- dead reckoning,
- defenselessness,
- demonstration,
- denudation,
- desquamation,
- detection,
- determination,
- determining,
- DIN number,
- direction,
- discernibleness,
- disclosing,
- disclosure,
- disconfirmation,
- discovering,
- discovery,
- display,
- disproof,
- disproval,
- disproving,
- distinguishment,
- divestment,
- divulging,
- eclat,
- emergence,
- enactment,
- endangerment,
- epiphany,
- espial,
- excavation,
- excoriation,
- exfoliation,
- exhibit,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- exhumation,
- experience,
- explosion,
- expose,
- exposition,
- exposure meter,
- f-stop,
- fame,
- familiarity,
- famousness,
- film rating,
- film speed,
- find,
- finding,
- finding out,
- fix,
- forthcoming,
- frontage,
- glare,
- hazard,
- helplessness,
- hoopla,
- hue and cry,
- imperilment,
- incarnation,
- indecent exposure,
- invalidation,
- invention,
- issuance,
- jeopardy,
- knowledge,
- lay,
- laying bare,
- laying open,
- leak,
- leaking,
- lens opening,
- liability,
- lie,
- light meter,
- limelight,
- line of position,
- locating,
- location,
- lucky strike,
- manifestation,
- materialization,
- materializing,
- maximum dissemination,
- nakedness,
- negation,
- nonimmunity,
- notoriety,
- observability,
- occurrence,
- opening,
- openness,
- orientation,
- ostentation,
- outcrop,
- outcropping,
- outlook,
- patefaction,
- perceptibility,
- performance,
- peril,
- pilotage,
- plug,
- position,
- position line,
- PR,
- presentation,
- presentment,
- press notice,
- production,
- projection,
- public eye,
- public knowledge,
- public relations,
- public report,
- publication,
- publicity,
- publicity story,
- publicness,
- publishing,
- puff,
- radio bearing,
- realization,
- reclame,
- recognition,
- redargution,
- rediscovery,
- reductio ad absurdum,
- removal,
- removing the veil,
- report,
- representation,
- retrospective,
- revealing,
- revealment,
- revelation,
- rise,
- rising,
- risk,
- seeableness,
- serendipity,
- set,
- setting,
- show,
- showing,
- showing forth,
- showing up,
- showup,
- shutter speed,
- spotlight,
- spotting,
- strike,
- stripping,
- susceptibility,
- susceptivity,
- the seen,
- the visible,
- theophany,
- time exposure,
- treasure trove,
- trouvaille,
- trove,
- uncloaking,
- uncovering,
- unearthing,
- unfolding,
- unfoldment,
- unmasking,
- unprotection,
- unveiling,
- unwrapping,
- varnishing day,
- vernissage,
- view,
- visibility,
- visibleness,
- visuality,
- vulnerability,
- what is revealed,
- write-up