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COVERAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The extent to which something is covered
Example:
the dictionary's coverage of standard English is excellent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("coverage" is a kind of...):
extent (the distance or area or volume over which something extends)
Derivation:
cover (act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television
Example:
they accused the paper of biased coverage of race relations
Synonyms:
coverage; reportage; reporting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("coverage" is a kind of...):
news (information reported in a newspaper or news magazine)
Derivation:
cover (be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The total amount and type of insurance carried
Synonyms:
coverage; insurance coverage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("coverage" is a kind of...):
amount; amount of money; sum; sum of money (a quantity of money)
Derivation:
cover (protect by insurance)
Context examples:
Another feature of the study's climate model is that, compared to Earth, a water-covered planet around two stars would have less cloud coverage.
(Earth-Sized 'Tatooine' Planets Could Be Habitable, NASA)
Sea ice extent (coverage) at the poles remained low throughout last year.
(2017 was 3rd warmest year on record for the globe, NOAA)
Limited monthly premiums are required from beneficiaries for non-hospital coverage.
(Medicare, NCI Thesaurus)
However, the previous studies upon which the 70% figure was based only measured overall canopy coverage.
(Researchers find preserving spotted owl habitat may not require a tradeoff with wildfire risk after all, Wikinews)
Coverage by contract whereby one part indemnifies or guarantees another against loss by a specified contingency.
(Insurance, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
This multi-antigen/multi-pathway targeting strategy provides broad immunotherapeutic coverage with respect to tumor complexity and heterogeneity and may result in enhanced vaccine efficacy.
(IMT-1012 Immunotherapeutic Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
Major environmental changes, largely caused by harmful human activities since European settlement, are adding to the extent of coral bleaching, sea surface temperature rises, declines in coral coverage and water quality; all of which greatly affect the reef’s ability to adapt and survive.
(Major study reveals Great Barrier Reef’s 30,000-year fight for survival, University of Granada)
Although we did not have global coverage with synthetic aperture radar (SAR), we used data from other instruments and other modes from radar to correlate characteristics of the different terrain units so we could infer what the terrains are even in areas where we don't have SAR coverage.
(The First Global Geologic Map of Titan Completed, NASA)
The program has four parts: • Part A is hospital insurance • Part B helps pay for medical services that Part A doesn't cover • Part C is called Medicare Advantage. If you have Parts A and B, you can choose this option to receive all of your health care through a provider organization, like an HMO. • Part D is prescription drug coverage. It helps pay for some medicines.
(Medicare, NIH)
Measurements from NASA satellites showed the hole in the Earth’s ozone layer that forms over Antarctica each September grew to only 7.6 million square miles in extent (coverage) before starting to recover this year.
(Warmth in the Antarctic stratosphere helped limit the size of the ozone hole in 2017 to the smallest observed since 1988, NOAA)
