Exposure - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ɪkˈspəʊʒər|  American pronunciation of the word exposure
Brit.  |ɪkˈspəʊʒə|  British pronunciation of the word exposure

noun

- vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain
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 (syn: vulnerability)
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 or in digital format (syn: photo, photograph, pic, picture)
- 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 an infant out in the open)

Extra examples

He risks exposure to ridicule by saying such things in public.

The candidates are competing for television exposure.

At least two people died of exposure in Chicago overnight.

All the candidates have been getting an enormous amount of exposure on television and in the press.

My bedroom has a southern exposure.

Prolonged exposure to the sun can cause skin cancer.

The failure of their marriage has got a lot of exposure recently.

The visit to Germany gave them exposure to the language.

We nearly died of exposure on the mountainside.

I have three exposures left on this roll.

Exposure to lead is known to damage the brains of young children.

I was lucky enough when I was quite young to have an exposure to computers.

A politician seeks a lot of exposure.

The exposure of his anger was shocking.

Exposure to the sun has aged her skin.

Word forms

noun
singular: exposure
plural: exposures
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