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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Publicly :: Publicly (adv.) With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made..
Creosote :: Creosote (n.) Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood..
Inexposure :: Inexposure (n.) A state of not being exposed.
Exposure :: 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..
Effloresce :: Effloresce (v. i.) To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce..
Pyrophorus :: Pyrophorus (n.) Any one of several substances or mixtures which phosphoresce or ignite spontaneously on exposure to air, as a heated mixture of alum, potash, and charcoal, or a mixture of charcoal and finely divided lead..
Scale :: Scale (v. i.) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae; as, some sandstone scales by exposure..
Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime..
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..
Peril :: Peril (n.) Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction..
Show :: Show (n.) The act of showing, or bringing to view; exposure to sight; exhibition..
Aeration :: Aeration (n.) A change produced in the blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization.
Graduator :: Graduator (n.) An apparatus for diffusing a solution, as brine or vinegar, over a large surface, for exposure to the air..
Tachhydrite :: Tachhydrite (n.) A hydrous chloride of calcium and magnesium occurring in yellowish masses which rapidly deliquesce upon exposure. It is found in the salt mines at Stassfurt.
Induce :: Induce (v. t.) To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure..
Exposure :: Exposure (n.) Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc..
Cold :: Cold (n.) A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.
Vivianite :: Vivianite (n.) A hydrous phosphate of iron of a blue to green color, growing darker on exposure. It occurs in monoclinic crystals, also fibrous, massive, and earthy..
Char :: Char (n.) To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.
Parelectronomy :: Parelectronomy (n.) A condition of the muscles induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed..
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