exposure
18 08 2008Nouns
1. (n.) exposure;
- vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain;
- “exposure to the weather”; “they died from exposure”;
2. (n.) exposure;
- the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience;
- “she denounced the exposure of children to pornography”;
3. (n.) exposure;
- the disclosure of something secret;
- “they feared exposure of their campaign plans”;
4. (n.) exposure;
- aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces;
- “the studio had a northern exposure”;
5. (n.) exposure, vulnerability;
- the state of being vulnerable or exposed;
- “his vulnerability to litigation”; “his exposure to ridicule”;
6. (n.) exposure;
- the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate;
- “he used the wrong exposure”;
7. (n.) exposure, photo, photograph, pic, picture;
- a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material;
8. (n.) exposure;
- the act of exposing film to light;
9. (n.) exposure;
- presentation to view in an open or public manner;
- “the exposure of his anger was shocking”;
10. (n.) exposure;
- abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open);
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