exposure meaning and definition

EXPOSURE noun

Definition of exposure (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 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"
   • synonyms: vulnerability
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
   • synonyms: photo, photograph, pic, picture
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)