Exposure - Definition

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 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" [syn:
vulnerability, exposure]
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 [syn: photograph, photo, exposure, picture,
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)