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UK
/ɛkspˈəʊʒɐ/
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[ US /ɪkˈspoʊʒɝ/ ]
[ US /ɪkˈspoʊʒɝ/ ]
NOUN
- the act of exposing film to light
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aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces
the studio had a northern exposure -
vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain
they died from exposure
exposure to the weather -
the disclosure of something secret
they feared exposure of their campaign plans - abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving an infant out in the open)
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presentation to view in an open or public manner
the exposure of his anger was shocking -
the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience
she denounced the exposure of children to pornography - a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format
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the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate
he used the wrong exposure -
the state of being vulnerable or exposed
his vulnerability to litigation
his exposure to ridicule
How To Use exposure In A Sentence
- Protection of skin from light exposure, photo-allergen avoidance, topical corticosteroids, oral nicotinamide, vitamine B complex and antihistamines were effective in most cases.
- After a long, tedious sail, during which I was subjected to every discomfort, and exposure to the weather, as well as jeers and insults that effervesced from a corrupt heart, where they had been concealed for so many years, we reached a spot near enough to the land to discover a cluster of orange trees and a cabin. Bond and Free: A Tale of the South
- Such aggregations not only promote transmission of micro-organisms but through repeated exposure allow large doses of these.
- HIV-positive Pedro Zamora from the San Francisco season, for example, put a face to the stigmatized disease of AIDS and did a world of good with his exposure -- even getting the recognition of then-president Bill Clinton. Ryan O'Connell: Auditioning for the Real World Is Too Real
- The results showed that cumulative OP exposure from about two-dozen foods often exceeded a child's acceptable Reference Dose (RfD).
- And so it remains reasonably fresh in 2003, if only as a result of its continuing underexposure. Globe and Mail
- A non-conductor can be charged by induction by exposure to an electrostatic field that is present on a surface charged with static electricity.
- The international investment bank has warned investors of the potential risk exposure arising from equities.
- Sample sites are located within recent quarry exposures, drainage and road cuttings.
- The haircut is merely the latest stage in his curious and unusual battle to avoid overexposure.