coverage

English Online Dictionary. What means coverage‎? What does coverage mean?

English

Etymology

From cover +‎ -age. First attested in 1912. Compare Middle English coverage (“a charge for having or stall or booth at a fair”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌv.(ə.)ɹɪdʒ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐv.(ə.)ɹɪdʒ/, /ˈkav.(ə.)ɹɪdʒ/

Noun

coverage (countable and uncountable, plural coverages)

1. An amount by which something or someone is covered.
2. (journalism) The amount and type of attention given to an event or topic in news media or other media.
3. (genetics) 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.
   • 1932, T. V. O'Connor, “Standardized Communication Aids to Marine Navigation” in Standards Yearbook (U.S. Government Printing Office), 61:

     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 broadcasting stations, practically all of the time the station is in operation.

5. The signal strength, reception of a radio signal.

6. (sports) Defense.

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Further reading

• coverage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French couvrage (“a cover”).

Noun

coverage

1. a charge for having or stall or booth at a fair

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