Incidence vs Coverage - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between incidence and coverage

is that incidence is the act of something happening; occurrence while coverage is an amount by which something or someone is covered.

(wikipedia incidence) (en noun)

The act of something happening; occurrence

The extent, or the relative frequency of something happening

(physics) The striking of radiation or a projectile upon a surface

(epidemiology) A measure of the risk that a person develops a new condition within a specified period of time, usually a year.

* angle of incidence * incidence algebra * incidence axiom * incidence function * incidence geometry * incidence graph * nonincidence

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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.