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Meaning of exposure

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  exposure
      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)

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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