Covering vs Coverage - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between covering and coverage

is that covering is that which covers something while coverage is an amount by which something or someone is covered.

is present participle of lang=en.

(countable) That which covers something.

(uncountable) Action of the verb to cover .

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(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.