What is the meaning of exposure?

noun

• Vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain.
  • usage: "exposure to the weather" or "they died from exposure";
• The act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience.
  • usage: "she denounced the exposure of children to pornography"
• The disclosure of something secret.
  • usage: "they feared exposure of their campaign plans"
• Aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces.
  • usage: "the studio had a northern exposure"
• The state of being vulnerable or exposed.
  • usage: "his vulnerability to litigation"; "his exposure to ridicule"
  • synonyms: vulnerability
• The intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate.
  • usage: "he used the wrong exposure"
• A representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material.
  • synonyms: photograph, photo, picture, pic
• The act of exposing film to light.
• Presentation to view in an open or public manner.
  • usage: "the exposure of his anger was shocking"
• Abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open. ).