Definition of exposure

• n. - The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt.
• n. - The state of being exposed or laid open or bare; openness to danger; accessibility to anything that may affect, especially detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold, to inconvenience.
• n. - Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc.
• n. - The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light.