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