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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.

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. n. Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc.
  4. n. The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light.
  5. n. vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain
  6. n. the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience
  7. n. the disclosure of something secret
  8. n. aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces
  9. n. the state of being vulnerable or exposed
  10. n. the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate
  11. n. a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format
  12. n. the act of exposing film to light