exposure
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exposure/ɪkˈspəʊʒə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 the state of being exposed to harm or risk.
■ a physical condition resulting from being exposed to severe weather conditions.
- 2 the revelation of something secret.
■ the publicizing of information or an event.
- 3 the action of exposing a photographic film.
■ the quantity of light reaching a photographic film, as determined by shutter speed and lens aperture.
- 4 the direction in which a building faces.
'exposure' also found in these Oxford entries:
aftersun
- anaphylaxis
- auto-exposure
- bake
- bleach
- broil
- brutalize
- burn
- challenge
- chap
- chloracne
- contaminate
- double exposure
- effloresce
- exposition
- exposure meter
- fast
- film
- flash burn
- freckle
- frostbite
- full-frontal
- gas
- harden
- indecent exposure
- insolation
- latex
- marketization
- mesothelioma
- Polaroid
- radiation sickness
- resistance
- risk
- roast
- shell shock
- sick
- silver iodide
- sky burial
- slow
- smoke
- speed
- stop
- sunstroke
- suntan
- tan
- tarnish
- toast
- tolerate
- unsmoked
