exposure (n.)

  1. vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain; exposure to the weather or they died from exposure;

  2. abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open)

  3. the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience; she denounced the exposure of children to pornography'

  4. the disclosure of something secret; they feared exposure of their campaign plans'

  5. aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces; the studio had a northern exposure'

  6. the state of being vulnerable or exposed; his vulnerability to litigation; his exposure to ridicule

    [ Syn: vulnerability ]

  7. the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate; he used the wrong exposure'

  8. 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 , picture , pic ]

  9. the act of exposing film to light

  10. presentation to view in an open or public manner; the exposure of his anger was shocking'

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