Exposition - definition, pronunciation, transcription

- a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic (syn: expounding)
- a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display (syn: exhibition, expo)
- an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse

we would have understood the play better if there had been some initial exposition of the background

- (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur