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exposure is a noun meaning "vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain". It carries 10 recorded senses.
vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain
“exposure to the weather”
“they died from exposure”
the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience
“she denounced the exposure of children to pornography”
the disclosure of something secret
“they feared exposure of their campaign plans”
aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces
“the studio had a northern exposure”
the state of being vulnerable or exposed
“his vulnerability to litigation”
“his exposure to ridicule”
the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate
“he used the wrong exposure”
a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format
the act of exposing film to light
presentation to view in an open or public manner
“the exposure of his anger was shocking”
abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving an infant out in the open)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for exposure come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.