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";

the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience; "she denounced the exposure of children to pornography"

the disclosure of something secret; "they feared exposure of their campaign plans"

aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces; "the studio had a northern exposure"

the state of being vulnerable or exposed; "his vulnerability to litigation"; "his exposure to ridicule"

the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate; "he used the wrong exposure"

a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material

the act of exposing film to light

presentation to view in an open or public manner; "the exposure of his anger was shocking"

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