Meaning & Definition of Exposure in English

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"

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

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)