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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Exposition \Ex`po*si"tion\, n. [L. expositio, fr exponere expositum: cf F. exposition. See {Expound}.] 1. The act of exposing or laying open a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. 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. You know the law; your exposition Hath been most sound. --Shak. 3. 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. [Obs.] --Arbuthnot. 4. A public exhibition or show as of industrial and artistic productions; as the Paris Exposition of 1878. [A Gallicism] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: exposition n 1: an interpretation of the meaning of something [syn: {expounding}, {construal}] 2: a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display [syn: {exhibition}, {expo}]
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