(n.) The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.
(n.) The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary.
(n.) Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an easterly exposition; an exposition to the sun.
(n.) A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris Exposition of 1878.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 45 days of the exposition, the protective action of these soaps were evaluated.
(2) Essential parameters of hepatic functioning in 84 labourers, whose exposition to benzene is differing in assimilation as well as length of time is discussed.--45 persons from the same county without contact to benzene or hepatotoxic agents served as control-group.
(3) The structural block diagram of the appropriate outfit for exposition automation in endoscopy is under discussion.
(4) This article summarizes the increased absorption levels of mercury among dwellers of Ciudad Cristiana Housing Project in Humacao, Puerto Rico confirming the exposition to the metal as documented by sediment analysis of the area performed by the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board.
(5) Reference is made to De Gaetano's exposition of Walsh's views concerning the rôle of platelets in clotting.
(6) A photograph, first exhibited by the Department of Psychology of Clark University at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago is included, and further illustrates the importance of these instruments to historians.
(7) The influence of the electric field of commerical frequency on metabolism and interorgan distribution of copper, molybdenum, iron and manganese was studied in the 4-month experiment on animals with their daily 30-minute exposition.
(8) Hot on the heels of the Beijing Olympics, Shanghai’s 2010 Expo was the biggest in history, spread across an area five times the size of Milan’s exposition at a cost of $50bn (£32bn) – a level of ambition that saw 18,000 families forcibly displaced , according to Amnesty International.
(9) The differential diagnosis of unclear carcinoma-suspicious renal findings often finishes with the test-exposition and nephrectomy.
(10) It is assumed that the neutral point of the spatial frame of reference for coding spatial position is at the position where attention is focussed immediately before exposition of the stimulus pattern.
(11) The author exposits his adherence to universal determinism and attempts to answer the question, "What sort of possibility and ethics are permitted in a deterministic universe?"
(12) Its simplest exposition is called the "Monty Hall" problem, from the US TV show Let's Make a Deal.
(13) In the absence of any coronary disorders--after a long CO exposition--necrosis of the papillary muscles have been revealed.
(14) It is shown that the formation of p-TA under these conditions depends on the period of the micro-discharge effect on the system, it is maximal at exposition of 30 s for I = 4.2 mA.
(15) Peculiarities of aggregation in the samples of high density serum lipoproteins LHD2 and LHD3 obtained from healthy donors and patients with ishaemic heart disease were studied under isothermal exposition.
(16) However, transanal exposition bears the risk of worsening the incontinence.
(17) Moreover, exposition to simultaneous hypoxia and hypercapnia increased the epinephrine stock of the adrenal glands.
(18) Those effects depend on time of cell exposition to this compound.
(19) Such a reaction may also be expected during a natural exposition to pollens.
(20) The technique of collection was the usual one with the exposition of the Petri dishes containing Sabouraud Agar distributed 72 hours before.
Fiction
Definition:
(n.) The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.
(n.) That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality.
(n.) Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.
(n.) An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.
(n.) Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
(2) Clute and Harrison took a scalpel to the flaws of the science fiction we loved, and we loved them for it.
(3) But it is now widely understood this Thanksgiving story is a fictional history.
(4) The fact that Line of Duty is ranked among the best TV fiction for years suggests there is no crisis with the channel.
(5) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(6) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(7) He added: "There will be all sorts of science fiction writers who will give their own opinions on what this means, but we don't want to enter that game."
(8) An Artist of the Floating World won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was nominated for the Booker prize for fiction; The Remains of the Day won the Booker; and When We Were Orphans, perceived by many reviewers as a disappointment, was nominated for both the Booker and the Whitbread.
(9) DynaTAC became the phone of choice for fictional psychopaths, including Wall Street's Gordon Gekko, American Psycho's Patrick Bateman and Saved by the Bell's Zack Morris.
(10) As a critic, he reviewed crime fiction for the Times from 1967 to 1983.
(11) Haki's naivety about English detective fiction is more than matched by Latimer's ingenuous excitement as Haki describes to him Dimitrios's sordid career, and he decides it would be fun to write the gangster's biography.
(12) Subjects made probability ratings for fictional others who were heavy, moderate, or light drinkers or nondrinkers.
(13) And anyway, if her fictional world is so timeless, why has it gone in and out of fashion?
(14) Austen couldn't avoid them, nor does her fiction try to.
(15) But the new creative director of BBC Films, promoted to the role after last week's BBC fiction shakeup , seems to harbour no such industry-appropriate urges.
(16) 23 May More films to see in 2014 • 2014 preview: thrillers • 2014 preview: comedy • 2014 preview: Oscar hopefuls • 2014 preview: science fiction • 2014 preview: romance • 2014 preview: drama • This article was amended on Thursday 2 January 2014.
(17) I think he’s one of those people in life who simply doesn’t really understand the difference between fact and fiction.
(18) The problem of consciousness is discussed briefly, including the contrary views of consciousness as a transcendental phenomenon and as an animistic fiction.
(19) Critical verdict The Tin Drum catapulted Grass to the forefront of European fiction and since then he has been Germany's "permanent Nobel candidate"; of the remainder of the Danzig trilogy, Cat and Mouse is the best regarded.
(20) It is tempting to visualise the yawning gap between the real-life equivalents of the fictional Chatsworth Estate, where Shameless is set, and Green Templeton College, Oxford, where Walker works.