Decrease and Exposure

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

noun

• Vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain.
  • usage: "exposure to the weather" or "they died from exposure";
• The act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience.
  • usage: "she denounced the exposure of children to pornography"
• The disclosure of something secret.
  • usage: "they feared exposure of their campaign plans"
• Aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces.
  • usage: "the studio had a northern exposure"
• The state of being vulnerable or exposed.
  • usage: "his vulnerability to litigation"; "his exposure to ridicule"
  • synonyms: vulnerability
• The intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate.
  • usage: "he used the wrong exposure"
• A representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material.
  • synonyms: photograph, photo, picture, pic
• The act of exposing film to light.
• Presentation to view in an open or public manner.
  • usage: "the exposure of his anger was shocking"
• Abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open. ).

• (n.) The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment or setting out to reprobation or contempt.
• (n.) Position as to points of compass or to influences of climate, etc.
• (n.) The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light.
• (n.) The state of being exposed or laid open or bare; openness to danger; accessibility to anything that may affect, especially detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold, to inconvenience.

Generally, is the extent to which a product is kept in the public eye through the press, radio, television, and public appearances. In finance,' EXPOSURE' refers to the amount that a business or person can lose. For example: in foreign exchange, it refers to the degree to which a company is affected by exchange rate changes.