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coverage

  • noun
  • /ˈkʌv.(ə.)ɹɪdʒ/

An amount by which something or someone is covered.

Example

“Don't go to lunch if we don't have enough coverage for the help-desk phones.”

Other meanings

  1. The amount and type of attention given to an event or topic in news media or other media.

  2. The average number of reads representing a given nucleotide in the reconstructed sequence.

Synonyms

  • insurance coverage

Related words

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

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “coverage” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.