English to English
exposure
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noun (n)
- vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain(noun.attribute)Example:
Exposure to the weather.
They died from exposure.
source: wordnet30 - the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience(noun.act)Example:
She denounced the exposure of children to pornography.
source: wordnet30 - the disclosure of something secret(noun.communication)Example:
They feared exposure of their campaign plans.
source: wordnet30 - aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces(noun.cognition)Example:
The studio had a northern exposure.
source: wordnet30 - the state of being vulnerable or exposed(noun.state)Example:
His exposure to ridicule.
source: wordnet30 - the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate(noun.quantity)Example:
He used the wrong exposure.
source: wordnet30 - a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material(noun.artifact)source: wordnet30
- the act of exposing film to light(noun.act)source: wordnet30
- presentation to view in an open or public manner(noun.act)Example:
The exposure of his anger was shocking.
source: wordnet30 - abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open)(noun.act)source: wordnet30
- 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.(noun)source: webster1913