Exposure

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Exposure may refer to:

Law and finance

  • Abandonment, multiple meanings in law
  • Indecent exposure, the display of unclothed parts of the human body that is against local custom and law
  • Potential for damages
  • An insurance company's potential to provide coverage under an insurance policy
  • Market exposure, a measure of the proportion of money invested in the same industry sector
  • Publicity, an activity designed to rouse public interest

Photography

  • Exposure (photography), the quantity of light or other radiation reaching a photographic film (or sensor), as determined by shutter speed and lens aperture
  • Exposure value, a value given to all combinations of camera shutter speed and aperture that gives the same exposure

Science and medicine

  • Radiant exposure, the radiant energy received by a surface per unit area, or equivalently the irradiance of a surface integrated over time of irradiation
  • A condition of very poor health or death resulting from lack of protection over prolonged periods under weather, extreme temperatures or dangerous substances. Examples: Hypothermia and sunburn
  • Exposure assessment, in the context of epidemiology and risk assessment
  • Mere-exposure effect, a psychological artefact
  • In geology, an occurrence of a rock at the Earth's surface - an outcrop
  • In biology, contact of an organism with a harmful agent (for example, chemicals)
  • Ionizing radiation, or radiation exposure
  • In experimental particle physics (in particular beam experiments or flux measurements), the product of the detector mass times the duration of the experiment, sometimes also multiplied by a measure of the intensity of the incoming flux
  • Exposure (heights), in climbing, the degree of risk in the event of a fall
  • Exposure therapy, a treatment method for anxiety disorders

Film and TV

Books

Music

  • The Exposures, a pseudonym for the German electronic musician Jan Jelinek

Albums

Songs

See also

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