Definition of exposure

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Exposure (n.) Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc..

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Survey :: Survey (v. t.) To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of; as, to survey a building in order to determine its value and exposure to loss by fire..
Discovery :: Discovery (n.) The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot..
Broil :: Broil (v. t.) To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals..
Weather :: Weather (v. t.) To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air.
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..
Insolate :: Insolate (v. t.) To dry in, or to expose to, the sun's rays; to ripen or prepare by such exposure..
Trial :: Trial (n.) The state of being tried or tempted; exposure to suffering that tests strength, patience, faith, or the like; affliction or temptation that exercises and proves the graces or virtues of men..
Airiness :: Airiness (n.) The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat..
Dewretting :: Dewretting (n.) Dewrotting; the process of decomposing the gummy matter of flax and hemp and setting the fibrous part, by exposure on a sward to dew, rain, and sunshine..
Dewrot :: Dewrot (v. t.) To rot, as flax or hemp, by exposure to rain, dew, and sun. See Dewretting..
Self-exposure :: Self-exposure (n.) The act of exposing one's self; the state of being so exposed.
Cerargyrite :: Cerargyrite (n.) Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver)..
Deadhouse :: Deadhouse (n.) A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies.
Apothem :: Apothem (n.) A deposit formed in a liquid extract of a vegetable substance 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..
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.
Air-slacked :: Air-slacked (a.) Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime..
Sale :: Sale (v. t.) Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction..
Scale :: Scale (v. i.) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae; as, some sandstone scales by exposure..
Sulphurize :: Sulphuring (n.) Exposure to the fumes of burning sulphur, as in bleaching; the process of bleaching by exposure to the fumes of sulphur..
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