exposure

Meanings

• vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain; or
  • "exposure to the weather"
  • "they died from exposure"
• the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience
  • "she denounced the exposure of children to pornography"
• the disclosure of something secret
  • "they feared exposure of their campaign plans"
• aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces
  • "the studio had a northern exposure"
• the state of being vulnerable or exposed
  • "his exposure to ridicule"
• the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate
  • "he used the wrong exposure"
• a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material
• the act of exposing film to light
• presentation to view in an open or public manner
  • "the exposure of his anger was shocking"
• abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open)

Synonyms

photo, photograph, pic, picture, vulnerability