From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Exposure \Ex*po"sure\ (?;135), noun [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.
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
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 re light or wind; "the studio had a northern exposure"
5: the state of being vulnerable or exposed; "his vulnerability to litigation"; "his exposure to ridicule" [syn: {vulnerability}]
6: the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate; "he used the wrong exposure"
7: a picture 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}, {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)
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
215 Moby Thesaurus words for "exposure": ASA exposure index, DIN number, PR, acquaintance, airing, apocalypse, apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, aspect, attitude, avatar, azimuth, ballyhoo, baring, bearing, bearings, blurb, bright light, bringing to light, casual discovery, catching, celebrity, celestial navigation, chance discovery, coming, coming into being, coming-forth, common knowledge, communicating, communication, contact, cry, currency, danger, daylight, dead reckoning, defenselessness, demonstration, denudation, desquamation, detection, determination, determining, direction, discernibleness, disclosing, disclosure, disconfirmation, discovering, discovery, display, disproof, disproval, disproving, distinguishment, divestment, divulging, eclat, emergence, enactment, endangerment, epiphany, espial, excavation, excoriation, exfoliation, exhibit, exhibition, exhibitionism, exhumation, experience, explosion, expose, exposition, exposure meter, f-stop, fame, familiarity, famousness, film rating, film speed, find, finding, finding out, fix, forthcoming, frontage, glare, hazard, helplessness, hoopla, hue and cry, imperilment, incarnation, indecent exposure, invalidation, invention, issuance, jeopardy, knowledge, lay, laying bare, laying open, leak, leaking, lens opening, liability, lie, light meter, limelight, line of position, locating, location, lucky strike, manifestation, materialization, materializing, maximum dissemination, nakedness, negation, nonimmunity, notoriety, observability, occurrence, opening, openness, orientation, ostentation, outcrop, outcropping, outlook, patefaction, perceptibility, performance, peril, pilotage, plug, position, position line, presentation, presentment, press notice, production, projection, public eye, public knowledge, public relations, public report, publication, publicity, publicity story, publicness, publishing, puff, radio bearing, realization, reclame, recognition, redargution, rediscovery, reductio ad absurdum, removal, removing the veil, report, representation, retrospective, revealing, revealment, revelation, rise, rising, risk, seeableness, serendipity, set, setting, show, showing, showing forth, showing up, showup, shutter speed, spotlight, spotting, strike, stripping, susceptibility, susceptivity, the seen, the visible, theophany, time exposure, treasure trove, trouvaille, trove, uncloaking, uncovering, unearthing, unfolding, unfoldment, unmasking, unprotection, unveiling, unwrapping, varnishing day, vernissage, view, visibility, visibleness, visuality, vulnerability, what is revealed, write-up
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