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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (10)

1. vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain;
- Example: "exposure to the weather" or "they died from exposure";;

2. the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience;
- Example: "she denounced the exposure of children to pornography"

3. the disclosure of something secret;
- Example: "they feared exposure of their campaign plans"

4. aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces;
- Example: "the studio had a northern exposure"

5. the state of being vulnerable or exposed;
- Example: "his vulnerability to litigation"
- Example: "his exposure to ridicule"
[syn: vulnerability, exposure]

6. the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate;
- Example: "he used the wrong exposure"

7. a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material;
[syn: photograph, photo, exposure, picture, pic]

8. the act of exposing film to light;

9. presentation to view in an open or public manner;
- Example: "the exposure of his anger was shocking"

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



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Exposure \Ex*po"sure\ (?;135), n. [From Expose.]
   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.
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            The exposure of Fuller . . . put an end to the
            practices of that vile tribe.         --Macaulay.
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   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.
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            When we have our naked frailties hid,
            That suffer in exposure.              --Shak.
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   3. Position as to points of compass, or to influences of
      climate, etc. "Under a southern exposure." --Evelyn.
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            The best exposure of the two for woodcocks. --Sir.
                                                  W. Scott.
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   4. (Photog.) The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action
      of light.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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