'Exposure' definitions:

Definition of 'exposure'

From: WordNet
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Vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain; "exposure to the weather" or "they died from exposure";
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The act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience; "she denounced the exposure of children to pornography"
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The disclosure of something secret; "they feared exposure of their campaign plans"
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Aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces; "the studio had a northern exposure"
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The state of being vulnerable or exposed; "his vulnerability to litigation"; "his exposure to ridicule" [syn: vulnerability, exposure]
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The intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate; "he used the wrong exposure"
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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]
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The act of exposing film to light
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Presentation to view in an open or public manner; "the exposure of his anger was shocking"
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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