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Coverage vs Depth - What's the difference?

coverage | depth |

As nouns the difference between coverage and depth

is that coverage is an amount by which something or someone is covered while depth is the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep.

coverage

English

Noun

(wikipedia coverage)
  • 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?
    There are overlapping coverages on your insurance policies.
  • The amount of space or time given to an event in newspapers or on television.
  • (lb) The average number of reads representing a given nucleotide in the reconstructed sequence.

    • depth

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep.
    • Measure the depth of the water in this part of the bay.
  • The distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet.
  • (figuratively) The intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.
    • The depth of her misery was apparent to everyone.
    The depth of the crisis had been exaggerated.
    We were impressed by the depth of her knowledge.
  • Lowness.
    • the depth of a sound
  • (computing, colors) The total palette of available colors.
  • (arts, photography) The property of appearing three-dimensional.
    • The depth of field in this picture is amazing.
  • (literary, usually plural) The deepest part. (Usually of a body of water.)
    • The burning ship finally sunk into the depths .
  • (literary, usually plural) A very remote part.
    • Into the depths of the jungle...
    In the depths of the night,
  • The most severe part.
    • in the depth of the crisis
    in the depths of winter
  • (logic) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.
  • (horology) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.
  • (statistics) The lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values.
    • {{examples-right, width=40%, sense=statistics, examples=
    Ordered Batch of 9 Values
    Value153245484956697797
    Depth 123454321
    }}

    Synonyms

    * deepness

    Related terms

    * deep * depth charge * in depth * out of one's depth