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Exposure

Noun1.exposure - vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain; "exposure to the weather" or "they died from exposure";
vulnerability - susceptibility to injury or attack
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
2.exposure - the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience; "she denounced the exposure of children to pornography"
influence - causing something without any direct or apparent effort
overexposure - the act of exposing someone excessively to an influencing experience; "an overexposure to violence on televsion"
underexposure - inadequate publicity
3.exposure - the disclosure of something secret; "they feared exposure of their campaign plans"
disclosure, revealing, revelation - the speech act of making something evident
expose, unmasking - the exposure of an impostor or a fraud; "he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government"
muckraking - the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures)
4.exposure - aspect re light or wind; "the studio had a northern exposure"
panorama, vista, view, aspect, scene, prospect - the visual percept of a region; "the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views"
5.exposure - the state of being vulnerable or exposed; "his vulnerability to litigation"; "his exposure to ridicule"
danger - the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury; "you are in no danger"; "there was widespread danger of disease"
6.exposure - the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate; "he used the wrong exposure"
light unit - a measure of the visible electromagnetic radiation
7.exposure - a picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material
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 - one of a series of still transparent photographs on a strip of film used in making movies
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)
mosaic - assembly of aerial photographs forming a composite picture
mug shot, mugshot - a photograph of someone's face (especially one made for police records)
photocopy - a photographic copy of written or printed or graphic work
photographic print, print - a printed picture produced from a photographic negative
photomicrograph - a photograph taken with the help of a microscope
ikon, picture, icon, image - a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
radiograph, shadowgraph, skiagram, skiagraph, radiogram - a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)
snapshot, shot, snap - an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera; "my snapshots haven't been developed yet"; "he tried to get unposed shots of his friends"
spectrogram, spectrograph - a photographic record of a spectrum
stereoscopic photograph, stereoscopic picture, stereo - 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); "he wanted some stills for a magazine ad"
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 pictures - 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
8.exposure - the act of exposing film to light
photography, picture taking - the act of taking and printing photographs
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)
9.exposure - presentation to view in an open or public manner; "the exposure of his anger was shocking"
demonstration, presentation, presentment - a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view; "the presentation of new data"; "he gave the customer a demonstration"
debunking, repudiation - the exposure of falseness or pretensions; "the debunking of religion has been too successful"
10.exposure - abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open)
abandonment, desertion, forsaking - the act of giving something up

 

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