ɪkˈspoʊʒɚ ˈfəʊ.təʊ ˈfoʊ.toʊ ˈfəʊ.tə.ˌɡɹɑːf ˈfoʊ.tə.ˌɡɹæf ˈpɪktʃə ˈpɪk(t)ʃɚ ˌvʌlnəɹəˈbɪlɪti the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience she denounced the exposure of children to pornography abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving an infant out in the open) presentation to view in an open or public manner the exposure of his anger was shocking the act of exposing film to light a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain exposure to the weather they died from exposure aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces the studio had a northern exposure the disclosure of something secret they feared exposure of their campaign plans the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate he used the wrong exposure the state of being vulnerable or exposed his vulnerability to litigation his exposure to ridicule