Definition of exposure

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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..

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Actinium :: Actinium (n.) A supposed metal, said by Phipson to be contained in commercial zinc; -- so called because certain of its compounds are darkened by exposure to light..
Exposition :: Exposition (n.) Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an easterly exposition; an exposition to the sun..
Winterkill :: Winterkill (v. t.) To kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled..
Daguerreotype :: Daguerreotype (n.) An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury..
Peril :: Peril (n.) Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction..
Ventilation :: Ventilation (n.) The act of ventilating, or the state of being ventilated; the art or process of replacing foul air by that which is pure, in any inclosed place, as a house, a church, a mine, etc.; free exposure to air..
Broil :: Broil (v. t.) To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals..
Parelectronomy :: Parelectronomy (n.) A condition of the muscles induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed..
Defilading :: Defilading (n.) The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected..
Sun-struck :: Sunstroke (n.) Any affection produced by the action of the sun on some part of the body; especially, a sudden prostration of the physical powers, with symptoms resembling those of apoplexy, occasioned by exposure to excessive heat, and often terminating fatally; coup de soleil..
Induce :: Induce (v. t.) To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure..
Weather :: Weather (v. t.) To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air.
Imbrown :: Imbrown (v. t.) To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure..
Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass..
Air-slacked :: Air-slacked (a.) Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime..
Heat :: Heat (n.) The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold..
Indurate :: Indurate (v. t.) To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air..
Linoleum :: Linoleum (n.) Linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment with chloride of sulphur. In this condition it is used for many of the purposes to which India rubber has been applied..
Isopepsin :: Isopepsin (n.) Pepsin modified by exposure to a temperature of from 40¡ to 60¡ C.
Self-exposure :: Self-exposure (n.) The act of exposing one's self; the state of being so exposed.
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