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Coverage vs Sighting - What's the difference?

coverage | sighting |

As nouns the difference between coverage and sighting

is that coverage is an amount by which something or someone is covered while sighting is the act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for.

As a verb sighting is

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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.

    • sighting

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for
    • There will be a small prize for the first sighting of a seal

    Verb

    (head)