exposure

(noun) vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain. Example: "Exposure to the weather" or "they died from exposure";."

(noun) the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience. Example: "She denounced the exposure of children to pornography."

(noun) the disclosure of something secret. Example: "They feared exposure of their campaign plans."

(noun) aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces. Example: "The studio had a northern exposure."

(noun) the state of being vulnerable or exposed. Synonyms: vulnerability. Examples: "His vulnerability to litigation." "His exposure to ridicule."

(noun) the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate. Example: "He used the wrong exposure."

(noun) a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material. Synonyms: photograph, photo, picture, pic.

(noun) the act of exposing film to light.

(noun) presentation to view in an open or public manner. Example: "The exposure of his anger was shocking."

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