Exposure

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Exposure may refer to:

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[edit] Photography

  • Exposure (photography), the total density of light allowed to fall on the sensor during the taking of a photograph
  • Exposure value, a value given to all combinations of camera shutter speed and aperture that gives the same exposure

[edit] Science and medicine

  • 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.
  • In the context of epidemiology and risk assessment, exposure is defined as the contact of a human and an agent
  • 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 (eg chemical)
  • 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.

[edit] Other

  • A form of infanticide in which a child is left outdoors to die
  • Market exposure, a measure of the proportion of money invested in the same industry sector
  • Publicity, an activity designed to rouse public interest
  • In climbing, the state of openness with relation to the distance of a fall (see glossary of climbing terms)

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