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exposure - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'exposure' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Exposure [ n.]
- 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 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.
- Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc.
- The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light.

Meaning of 'exposure' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . exposure [ n]
Meaning (1):
- vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain
Example in sentence:
  • exposure to the weather;
  • they died from exposure
Meaning (2):
- the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate
Example in sentence:
  • he used the wrong exposure
Meaning (3):
- the state of being vulnerable or exposed
Example in sentence:
  • his exposure to ridicule;
  • his vulnerability to litigation
Meaning (4):
- the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience
Example in sentence:
  • she denounced the exposure of children to pornography
Meaning (5):
- presentation to view in an open or public manner
Example in sentence:
  • the exposure of his anger was shocking
Meaning (6):
- aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces
Example in sentence:
  • the studio had a northern exposure
Meaning (7):
- the disclosure of something secret
Example in sentence:
  • they feared exposure of their campaign plans