Hypertext Webster Gateway: "exposure"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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) 1.7 (wn)
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 re light or wind; "the studio had a northern
exposure"
5: the state of being vulnerable or exposed; "exposure to
ridicule" or "vulnerability to litigation" [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: presentation to view in an open or public manner; "the
exposure of his anger was shocking"
9: the act of exposing film to light
10: abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as
infant out in the open)
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