exposition : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: exposition	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
exposition n a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic Synonym(s): exposition, expounding a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display Synonym(s): exhibition, exposition, expo an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse; "we would have understood the play better if there had been some initial exposition of the background" (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exposition \Ex`posi"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]