exposure

noun

1. vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain

   noun.attribute

   Examples

   Exposure to the weather.

   They died from exposure.

   Source: WordNet 3.0

2. the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience

   noun.act

   Examples

   She denounced the exposure of children to pornography.

   Source: WordNet 3.0

3. the disclosure of something secret

   noun.communication

   Examples

   They feared exposure of their campaign plans.

   Source: WordNet 3.0

4. aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces

   noun.cognition

   Examples

   The studio had a northern exposure.

   Source: WordNet 3.0

5. the state of being vulnerable or exposed

   noun.state

   Examples

   His exposure to ridicule.

   Synonyms vulnerability

   Source: WordNet 3.0

6. the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate

   noun.quantity

   Examples

   He used the wrong exposure.

   Source: WordNet 3.0

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

   noun.artifact

   Synonyms photo photograph pic picture

   Source: WordNet 3.0

8. the act of exposing film to light

   noun.act

   Source: WordNet 3.0

9. presentation to view in an open or public manner

   noun.act

   Examples

   The exposure of his anger was shocking.

   Source: WordNet 3.0

10. abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open)

    noun.act

    Source: WordNet 3.0

11. 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.

    noun

    Source: webster1913