Definitions for exposure

Definitions for (noun) exposure

Main entry: exposure

Definition: the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience

Usage: she denounced the exposure of children to pornography


Main entry: exposure

Definition: abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open)


Main entry: exposure

Definition: presentation to view in an open or public manner

Usage: the exposure of his anger was shocking


Main entry: exposure

Definition: the act of exposing film to light


Main entry: exposure, photo, photograph, pic, picture

Definition: a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material


Main entry: exposure

Definition: vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain

Usage: exposure to the weather or they died from exposure;


Main entry: exposure

Definition: aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces

Usage: the studio had a northern exposure


Main entry: exposure

Definition: the disclosure of something secret

Usage: they feared exposure of their campaign plans


Main entry: exposure

Definition: the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate

Usage: he used the wrong exposure


Main entry: vulnerability, exposure

Definition: the state of being vulnerable or exposed

Usage: his vulnerability to litigation; his exposure to ridicule


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