exposure

Definitions of exposure in various dictionaries:

noun - vulnerability to the elements

noun - the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience

noun - the disclosure of something secret

noun - aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces

noun - the state of being vulnerable or exposed

noun - the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate

noun - a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide

noun - the act of exposing film to light

noun - presentation to view in an open or public manner

noun - abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open)

An act of subjecting or an instance of being subjected to an action or an influence: their first exposure to big city life.

Appearance in public or in the mass media: an actor with much recent exposure in television.

Revelation, especially of crime or guilt: exposure of graft in county government.

The condition of being exposed, especially to severe weather or other forces of nature: was hospitalized for the effects of exposure.

A position in relation to climatic or weather conditions or points of the compass: Our house has a southern exposure.

The act of exposing sensitized photographic film or plate.

A photographic plate or a piece of film so exposed.

The amount of radiant energy needed to expose a photographic film.

verb - to lay open to view