a large-scale public exhibition or show, as of art or manufactured products: an exposition of 19th-century paintings; an automobile exposition.Synonyms: exhibit, demonstration, display, presentation.
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the act of expounding, setting forth, or explaining: the exposition of a point of view.
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writing or speech primarily intended to convey information or to explain; a detailed statement or explanation; explanatory treatise: The students prepared expositions on familiar essay topics.Synonyms: elucidation, commentary; critique, interpretation, exegesis, explication.
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the act of presenting to view; display: The singer gave a splendid exposition of vocal talent.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
late 14c., "explanation, narration," from O.Fr. exposition, from L. expositionem (nom. expositio), from expositus, pp. of exponere (see expound). The meaning "public display" is first recorded 1851 in reference to the Crystal Palace Exposition in London. Abbreviation Expo
is first recorded 1963, in reference to planning for the world's fair held in Montreal in 1967.