exposure

Definitions

1. 1noun

   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.

2. 2noun

   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.

3. 3noun

   Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc.

4. 4noun

   The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light.

5. 5noun

   the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience

   "she denounced the exposure of children to pornography"

6. 6noun

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

7. 7noun

   presentation to view in an open or public manner

   "the exposure of his anger was shocking"

8. 8noun

   the act of exposing film to light

9. 9noun

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

   Synonyms

   photophotographpicpicture
10. 10noun

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

    "exposure to the weather"

11. 11noun

    aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces

    "the studio had a northern exposure"

12. 12noun

    the disclosure of something secret

    "they feared exposure of their campaign plans"

13. 13noun

    the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate

    "he used the wrong exposure"

14. 14noun

    the state of being vulnerable or exposed

    "his vulnerability to litigation"

    "his exposure to ridicule"

    Synonyms

    vulnerability