exposurenoun
uk/ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒər/us/ɪkˈspoʊ.ʒɚ/exposure noun (EXPERIENCE)
C1 [ C or U ] the fact of experiencing something or being affected by it because of being in a particular situation or place:
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- According to received wisdom, exposure to low level radioactivity is harmless.
- We know that prolonged exposure to vibration can weaken aircraft components.
- She gradually became deaf after lengthy exposure to noise in the workplace.
- Researchers concluded that low level exposure to the chemical was unlikely to cause harm.
- Even at low levels of exposure, lead can impair a child's learning ability and cause behavioural problems.
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Experiencing and suffering
- afflict
- affliction
- almost/nearly die of sth idiom
- be a martyr to sth idiom
- be a victim of your own success idiom
- be devoured by sth idiom
- get the short end of the stick idiom
- get/have your fingers burned idiom
- go through sth
- grip
- hands-on
- hold
- ride
- sample
- seat
- sense
- undergo
- underwent
- ups and downs
- writhe
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exposure noun (MADE PUBLIC)
[ C or U ] the fact of something bad that someone has done being made public]:
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Revealing secrets & becoming known
- (the) word is/gets out idiom
- bare
- be the talk of the town idiom
- break cover idiom
- cat
- dob sb in
- emerge
- fink
- get around (somewhere)
- give sth away
- King's evidence
- leak
- let the cat out of the bag idiom
- open your heart to someone idiom
- sneak
- spill the beans idiom
- tell on sb
- tongues wagging idiom
- turn
- unmask
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exposure noun (ATTENTION)
[ U ] the fact of an event or information being often discussed in newspapers and on the television, etc.:
exposure noun (ILLNESS)
[ U ] a serious medical condition that is caused by being outside in very cold weather:
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Disorders & diseases of the heart & blood
- acquired agammaglobulinemia
- agammaglobulinemia
- agnogenic myeloid metaplasia
- anemic
- angina
- blood poisoning
- deep vein thrombosis
- dilated cardiomyopathy
- Ebstein's anomaly
- economy-class syndrome
- Eisenmenger syndrome
- endocarditis
- haemorrhage
- hypothermia
- leukaemia
- paediatric thrombocytopenia
- patent ductus arteriosus
- pediatric thrombocytopenia
- pericarditis
- peripheral vascular disease
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exposure noun (PHOTOGRAPH)
[ C ] a single photograph on a piece of film, or the amount of time a piece of film is open to the light when making a photograph:
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Photography
- airbrush
- aperture
- camera
- camera obscura
- camera-shy
- capture
- high-resolution
- hologram
- holography
- kinetoscope
- lo-res
- negative
- say cheese idiom
- selfie
- sharp
- shoot
- shutter
- slide
- SLR camera
- snapshot
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exposure noun (DIRECTION)
[ S ] the direction in which something faces:
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General location and orientation
- -oriented
- about
- along
- anterior
- around
- back onto sth
- far
- front
- frontal
- hind
- left-hand
- nearside
- offside
- on-site
- orientated
- overleaf
- position
- round
- side-on
- spot
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