EXPOSURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exposure mean? 

• EXPOSURE (noun)
  The noun EXPOSURE has 10 senses:

1. vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain

2. the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience

3. the disclosure of something secret

4. aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces

5. the state of being vulnerable or exposed

6. the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate

7. a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format

8. the act of exposing film to light

9. presentation to view in an open or public manner

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

  Familiarity information: EXPOSURE used as a noun is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPOSURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

they died from exposure

Hypernyms ("exposure" is a kind of...):

vulnerability (susceptibility to injury or attack)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exposure"):

wind exposure; windage (exposure to the wind (as the exposed part of a vessel's hull which is responsible for wind resistance))

solarisation; solarization (exposure to the rays of the sun)

Derivation:

expose (expose or make accessible to some action or influence)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

she denounced the exposure of children to pornography

Hypernyms ("exposure" is a kind of...):

influence (causing something without any direct or apparent effort)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exposure"):

underexposure (inadequate publicity)

overexposure (the act of exposing someone excessively to an influencing experience)

Derivation:

expose (expose or make accessible to some action or influence)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The disclosure of something secret

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

they feared exposure of their campaign plans

Hypernyms ("exposure" is a kind of...):

disclosure; revealing; revelation (the speech act of making something evident)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exposure"):

expose; unmasking (the exposure of an impostor or a fraud)

muckraking (the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures))

Derivation:

expose (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

the studio had a northern exposure

Hypernyms ("exposure" is a kind of...):

aspect; panorama; prospect; scene; view; vista (the visual percept of a region)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The state of being vulnerable or exposed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

exposure; vulnerability

Context example:

his exposure to ridicule

Hypernyms ("exposure" is a kind of...):

danger (the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury)

Derivation:

expose (put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position)

Sense 6

Meaning:

The intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Context example:

he used the wrong exposure

Hypernyms ("exposure" is a kind of...):

light unit (a measure of the visible electromagnetic radiation)

Derivation:

expose (expose to light, of photographic film)

Sense 7

Meaning:

A representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

exposure; photo; photograph; pic; picture

Hypernyms ("exposure" is a kind of...):

representation (a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exposure"):

mug shot; mugshot (a photograph of someone's face (especially one made for police records))

stock image; stock photograph (an exisitng photograph licensed for a specific use)

photographic print; print (a printed picture produced from a photographic negative)

photomicrograph (a photograph taken with the help of a microscope)

radiogram; radiograph; shadowgraph; skiagram; skiagraph (a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays))

shot; snap; snapshot (an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera)

spectrogram; spectrograph (a photographic record of a spectrum)

stereo; stereoscopic photograph; stereoscopic picture (two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together)

still (a static photograph (especially one taken from a movie and used for advertising purposes))

telephoto; telephotograph (a photograph made with a telephoto lens)

telephotograph (a photograph transmitted and reproduced over a distance)

time exposure (a photograph produced with a relatively long exposure time)

vignette (a photograph whose edges shade off gradually)

wedding picture (photographs of bride and groom and their friends taken at their wedding)

scene; shot (a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film)

arial mosaic; mosaic; photomosaic (arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture)

beefcake (a photograph of a muscular man in minimal attire)

black and white; monochrome (a black-and-white photograph or slide)

blueprint (photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.)

cheesecake (a photograph of an attractive woman in minimal attire)

closeup (a photograph taken at close range)

daguerreotype (a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor)

blowup; enlargement; magnification (a photographic print that has been enlarged)

frame (a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film)

glossy (a photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper)

headshot (a photograph of a person's head)

hologram; holograph (the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography)

longshot (a photograph taken from a distance)

microdot (photograph reduced to the size of a dot (usually for purposes of security))

photocopy (a photographic copy of written or printed or graphic work)

Sense 8

Meaning:

The act of exposing film to light

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("exposure" is a kind of...):

photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exposure"):

overexposure (the act of exposing film to too much light or for too long a time)

underexposure (the act of exposing film to too little light or for too short a time)

time exposure (exposure of a film for a relatively long time (more than half a second))

Derivation:

expose (expose to light, of photographic film)

Sense 9

Meaning:

Presentation to view in an open or public manner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the exposure of his anger was shocking

Hypernyms ("exposure" is a kind of...):

demonstration; presentation; presentment (a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exposure"):

debunking; repudiation (the exposure of falseness or pretensions)

Derivation:

expose (reveal to view as by removing a cover)

expose (to show, make visible or apparent)

Sense 10

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("exposure" is a kind of...):

abandonment; desertion; forsaking (the act of giving something up)

Derivation:

expose (abandon by leaving out in the open air)

 Context examples 

Symptoms of acute radiation sickness usually occur right after exposure but they may happen over time, and they may come and go.

(Acute radiation sickness, NCI Dictionary)

Possible risk factors include smoking, previous chemotherapy treatment, and exposure to radiation.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Possible risk factors for ALL include being male, being white, previous chemotherapy treatment, exposure to radiation, and for adults, being older than 70.

(Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Symptoms of acute radiation syndrome usually occur right after exposure but they may happen over time, and they may come and go.

(Acute radiation syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

Drying by exposure to forced air.

(Air-Drying, NCI Thesaurus)

Prolonged exposure causes variety of topical and systemic adverse reactions.

(Anthracene, NCI Thesaurus)

The most common form of leishmaniasis that is transmitted through the bite of female phlebotomine sand flies or after exposure to leishmania parasites.

(American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, NCI Thesaurus)

These substances subsequently produce inflammatory reactions in the skin of those who have acquired hypersensitivity to them as a result of prior exposure.

(Allergic Contact Dermatitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A drug put on the skin to treat growths caused by sun exposure.

(Actinex, NCI Dictionary)

Methemoglobinemia that is caused by exposure to certain drugs (xylocaine and benzene) and nitrate-rich foods.

(Acquired Methemoglobinemia, NCI Thesaurus)