1. Disclosure of something private or secret: Thomas would be threatened with public exposure of his criminal past if he tried to run for the political office.
2. Subjecting someone to an influencing experience: Some parents denounced the exposure of children to violence in certain computer games.
3. Abandoning without shelter or protection: The group of campers, including Ted and Ray, will risk exposure to rain and wind if they stay out on the hills over night.

Yesterday Theodore worked in the garden without protection from exposure to the sun.
4. The presentation of something to view in an open or public manner: The exposure of the politician's anger during the TV interview was shocking to Tom, the moderator, and also to many of the program's viewers.
5. The process of exposing film to light: Carl is convinced that his best photographic exposures are for pictures of nature.
6. Vulnerability to natural elements; such as, heat, cold, wind, and rain: Several travelers died from the multiple exposures to the severe freezing weather that took place last winter.
7. A disclosure of something secret: The politicians feared exposure of their campaign plans to their political opponents.