exposure Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Ex*po"sure noun
Etymology
From Expose.
Definitions
  1. 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.
    The exposure of Fuller . . . put an end to the practices of that vile tribe. Macaulay.
  2. 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.
    When we have our naked frailties hid, That suffer in exposure. Shak.
  3. Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc. "Under a southern exposure. Evelyn.
    The best exposure of the two for woodcocks. Sir. W. Scott.
  4. (Photog.) The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light.

Webster 1913