Definitions for exposure
ɪkˈspoʊ ʒərex·po·sure

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. exposurenoun

   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. exposurenoun

   the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience

   "she denounced the exposure of children to pornography"

3. exposurenoun

   the disclosure of something secret

   "they feared exposure of their campaign plans"

4. exposurenoun

   aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces

   "the studio had a northern exposure"

5. vulnerability, exposurenoun

   the state of being vulnerable or exposed

   "his vulnerability to litigation"; "his exposure to ridicule"

6. exposurenoun

   the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate

   "he used the wrong exposure"

7. photograph, photo, exposure, picture, picnoun

   a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material

8. exposurenoun

   the act of exposing film to light

9. exposurenoun

   presentation to view in an open or public manner

   "the exposure of his anger was shocking"

10. exposurenoun

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. exposurenoun

   The condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected.

2. exposurenoun

   That part which is facing or exposed to something, e.g. the sun, weather, sky, or a view.

   They rented a cabin with a beautiful southern exposure.

3. exposurenoun

   Lack of protection from weather or the elements.

   The vagrant died of exposure.

4. exposurenoun

   An instance of taking a photograph.

5. exposurenoun

   The piece of film exposed to light.

6. exposurenoun

   Details of the time and f-number used.

7. exposurenoun

   The amount of sun, wind etc. experienced by a particular site.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Exposurenoun

   Etymology: from expose.

   1. The act of exposing or setting out to observation.2. The state of being open to observation.

   When we have our naked frailties hid,
   That suffer in exposure, let us meet. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   3. The state of being exposed, or being liable to any thing.

   Determine on some course,
   More than a wild exposure to each chance
   That starts i’ th’ way before thee. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   4. The state of being in danger.

   Ajax sets Thersites
   To match us in comparisons with dirt;
   To weaken and discredit our exposure,
   How hard soever rounded in with danger. William Shakespeare.

   5. Exposition; the situation in which the sun or air is received.

   The cold now advancing, set such plants as will not endure the house, in pots two or three inches lower than the surface of some bed, under a southern exposure. John Evelyn.

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1. exposure

   Exposure refers to the state of being subjected to or coming into contact with something, such as risk, danger, harm, or elements in certain environments. It can also refer to the act of revealing or uncovering, or making something visible or known. In photography, exposure is the amount of light per unit area reaching a photographic film or electronic image sensor.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Exposurenoun

   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

2. Exposurenoun

   the state of being exposed or laid open or bare; openness to danger; accessibility to anything that may affect, especially detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold, to inconvenience

3. Exposurenoun

   position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc

4. Exposurenoun

   the exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light

5. Etymology: [From Expose.]

FreebaseRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Exposure

   In photography, exposure is the amount of light allowed to fall on each area unit of a photographic medium during the process of taking a photograph. Exposure is measured in lux seconds, and can be computed from exposure value and scene luminance in a specified region. In photographic jargon, an exposure generally refers to a single shutter cycle. For example: a long exposure refers to a single, protracted shutter cycle to capture enough low-intensity light, whereas a multiple exposure involves a series of relatively brief shutter cycles; effectively layering a series of photographs in one image. For the same film speed, the accumulated photometric exposure should be similar in both cases.

Matched Categories

1. • Danger
   • Disclosure
   • Influence
   • Light Unit
   • Photography
   • Presentation
   • View

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'exposure' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3938

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'exposure' in Nouns Frequency: #1604

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of exposure in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of exposure in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of exposure in a Sentence

1. John Sloan Dickey:

   The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.

2. Todd Rosenbluth:

   Based on the names and country profiles, it should seem they are offering you the same exposure, but they track different indices, their country exposure is going to be different, and that exposure difference helps explain why they perform differently. So far, the discrepancy has helped The Vanguard fund, Todd Rosenbluth said, although both funds have taken a hit since the end of June, when the Shanghai Composite Index started falling. Since then, The Vanguard fund has lost 11.65 percent, while the iShares fund has fallen 12.45 percent. Year to date, The Vanguard fund is down 6.97 percent, and the iShares fund is down 8.89 percent. Chinese shares have been falling on fears that the nation's economy may slow well beyond the 7 percent growth rate that analysts had earlier suggested would be a bottom for that market. China has moved to weaken its currency to bolster its economy and share prices. The difference between the two funds is expected to widen because the two different indexes they follow will be treating Chinese stocks differently. FTSE, the Financial Times Stock Exchange, plans to begin adding onshore Chinese equities, known as A-shares, to its broad emerging markets indexes, which Vanguard follows. The Vanguard benchmark, the FTSE Emerging Index, now has approximately 26 percent exposure to China, according to the mutual fund company. In June, Vanguard said it would begin shifting to a new FTSE index later this year. The new index will have a 29 percent exposure to China, including a 5.6 percent exposure to A-shares. MSCI Inc, however, said in June that it was not ready to include the A-shares in its two emerging market indexes.

3. Amy Fochler:

   Veterans face a lot of adversity when it comes to burn pit exposure. Three things are needed for service connection, exposure and service, a current disability, and a nexus between that exposure and their disability, the Nexus piece is usually the most difficult to establish and with Chris, because the onset was in service, the VA found that there was a nexus. For most veterans, the disability manifests after service, and so, without a presumptive for conditions due to burn pit exposure, the burden is on the veteran to present evidence of a medical nexus between their current disability and their burn pit exposure. Most of the time, the VA doesn't recognize the connection.

4. Todd Rosenbluth:

   Based on the names and country profiles, it should seem they are offering you the same exposure, but they track different indices, their country exposure is going to be different, and that exposure difference helps explain why they perform differently. So far, the discrepancy has helped The Vanguard fund, Todd Rosenbluth said, although both funds have taken a hit since the end of June, when the Shanghai Composite Index. SSEC started falling. Since then, The Vanguard fund has lost 11.65 percent, while the iShares fund has fallen 12.45 percent. Year to date, The Vanguard fund is down 6.97 percent, and the iShares fund is down 8.89 percent. Chinese shares have been falling on fears that the nation's economy may slow well beyond the 7 percent growth rate that analysts had earlier suggested would be a bottom for that market. China has moved to weaken its currency to bolster its economy and share prices. The difference between the two funds is expected to widen because the two different indexes they follow will be treating Chinese stocks differently. Financial Times Stock Exchange, the Financial Times Stock Exchange, plans to begin adding onshore Chinese equities, known as A-shares, to Financial Times Stock Exchange broad emerging markets indexes, which Vanguard follows. The Vanguard benchmark, the FTSE Emerging Index, now has approximately 26 percent exposure to China, according to the mutual fund company. In June, Vanguard said it would begin shifting to a new Financial Times Stock Exchange index later this year. The new index will have a 29 percent exposure to China, including a 5.6 percent exposure to A-shares. MSCI Inc( MSCI.N), however, said in June that it was not ready to include the A-shares in its two emerging market indexes.

5. Scott Gottlieb:

   It's important to underscore that, based on the FDA's initial evaluation, the increased risk of cancer to patients with NMBA exposure appears to be the same for NDMA exposure but less than the risk from NDEA exposure. That said, any presence of such impurities in drug products is not acceptable. Over the past few months, the FDA has conducted a major investigation and has worked with drug companies to address the presence of impurities in these products, our ongoing effort has determined that the impurities may be generated by specific chemical reactions in the manufacturing process of the drug's active pharmaceutical ingredients. FDA scientists have developed novel and sophisticated testing methods specifically designed to detect and measure N-Nitrosodimethylamine( NDMA) and N-Nitrosodiethylamine( NDEA) impurities in ARB medicines. Because of the potential for discovering other nitrosamine impurities, we are conducting an extensive organic chemistry analysis to develop novel testing methods to detect additional nitrosamine impurities, including NMBA.

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