Definition of exposure

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Exposure (n.) The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light.

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Tan :: Tan (n.) To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin..
Fast :: Fast (v.) Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors..
Exposture :: Exposture (n.) Exposure.
Secure :: Secure (v. t.) To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect..
Airiness :: Airiness (n.) The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat..
Deadhouse :: Deadhouse (n.) A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies.
Weather-beaten :: Weather-beaten (a.) Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather..
Guard :: Guard (v. t.) One who, or that which, guards from injury, danger, exposure, or attack; defense; protection..
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..
Inexposure :: Inexposure (n.) A state of not being exposed.
Weatherworn :: Weatherworn (a.) Worn by the action of, or by exposure to, the weather..
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..
Sulphurize :: Sulphuring (n.) Exposure to the fumes of burning sulphur, as in bleaching; the process of bleaching by exposure to the fumes of sulphur..
Solarize :: Solarize (v. t.) To injure by too long exposure to the light of the sun in the camera; to burn.
Plight :: Plight (n.) Condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight..
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..
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..
Melotype :: Melotype (n.) A picture produced by a process in which development after exposure may be deferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates; also, the process itself..
Insolate :: Insolate (v. t.) To dry in, or to expose to, the sun's rays; to ripen or prepare by such exposure..
Roast :: Roast (v. t.) To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts..
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