coverage

An amount by which something or someone is covered.

Noun

  1. An amount by which something or someone is covered.
    • Don't go to lunch if we don't have enough coverage for the help-desk phones.
    • Before laying sod on that clay, the ground needs two inches of coverage with topsoil.
    • The enemy fire is increasing – can we get some immediate coverage from those bunkers?
  2. The amount and type of attention given to an event or topic in news media or other media.
    • Through services using the Elizabeth line were increased from November 6, but this did not attract significant media coverage - mainly because it has been an operational success, […]. - 2022 November 30, Industry...
    • Holed up in the White House over the weekend, with temperatures dropping and a major snowstorm on its way, Mr. Trump expressed concern about the killing to aides and allies. But his frustrations were more about the...
  3. The average number of reads representing a given nucleotide in the reconstructed sequence.
  4. The area covered by a mobile phone (cellphone) or other radio network.
    • The primary coverage area of a station is that area throughout which the station can be received without objectionable interference from static, electrical interfering noises, or interference from other radio...
  5. The signal strength, reception of a radio signal.
    • Mobile phone coverage is poor in some areas.
  6. Defense.

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Latin operiō Latin cooperiō Old French covrirbor. Middle English coveren English cover Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English coverage From cover + -age. First attested in 1912. Compare Middle English coverage (“a charge for having or stall or booth at a fair”).

Forms

coverages

Derived

code coverage comprehensive coverage coverage analysis double coverage miscoverage noncoverage outkick one's coverage overcoverage undercoverage