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Duration vs Coverage - What's the difference?

duration | coverage |

As nouns the difference between duration and coverage

is that duration is an amount of time or a particular time interval while coverage is an amount by which something or someone is covered.

duration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An amount of time or a particular time interval.
  • The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war
    • Rationing will last at least for the duration .
  • (finance) A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates, computed for a simple bond as a weighted average of the maturities of the interest and principal payments associated with it.

    • See also

    * * (Bond duration) * dictionary.reference.com entry

    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.