exposure B2 Topic:Law & Government US /ɪkˈspoʊ.ʒɚ/ UK /ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/ See IPA manual Freq #7109 Meanings 1 noun The state of being affected by something, such as a substance or influence. Long exposure to the sun can damage your skin. 2 noun The act of making something secret or hidden known to the public. The newspaper's exposure of the scandal forced the minister to resign. 3 noun Attention or publicity from the public or media. The young singer got a lot of exposure after the TV show. 4 noun The amount of light that reaches the film or sensor in a camera. I used the wrong exposure, so the photo came out too dark. Thesaurus Word family Forms exposures Derived forms antiexposureautoexposurechemoexposurecoexposurecryoexposuredouble-exposurehyperexposureinexposuremultiexposuremultiple-exposurenonexposureoverexposure Common collocations exposure dose Noun + noun maximum exposure Adjective + noun Etymology From expose + -ure. *tḱey- Proto-Indo-European View etymology graph -> Topics Law & Government External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # exposure **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ɪkˈspoʊ.ʒɚ/ **IPA (UK):** /ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/ **Frequency rank:** 7109 ## Meanings 1. The state of being affected by something, such as a substance or influence. 2. The act of making something secret or hidden known to the public. 3. Attention or publicity from the public or media. 4. The amount of light that reaches the film or sensor in a camera. ## Examples - Long exposure to the sun can damage your skin. - The newspaper's exposure of the scandal forced the minister to resign. - The young singer got a lot of exposure after the TV show. - I used the wrong exposure, so the photo came out too dark. ## Derived Forms - antiexposure - autoexposure - chemoexposure - coexposure - cryoexposure - double-exposure - hyperexposure - inexposure - multiexposure - multiple-exposure - nonexposure - overexposure ## Roots and Affixes - Root: *tḱey- ## Etymology From expose + -ure. ## Topics - Law & Government markdown