Layer vs Coverage - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between layer and coverage

is that layer is a single thickness of some material covering a surface while coverage is an amount by which something or someone is covered.

is to cut or divide (something) into layers.

(en noun)

A single thickness of some material covering a surface.

Wrap the loaf in two layers of aluminum foil before putting it in the oven.

After the first coat of paint dried, he applied another layer .

# An item of clothing worn under or over another.

It's cold now but it will warm up this afternoon. Make sure you wear layers .

A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.

I find seven-layer cake a bit too rich.

A person who lays things, such as tiles.

A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.

When dealing with an infestation of headlice, the first step is to eliminate the layers .

A hen kept to lay eggs.

A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.

* (stratum) stratum

* boundary layer * ozone layer

(en verb)

(ambitransitive) to cut or divide (something) into layers

(ambitransitive) to arrange (something) in layers.

Layer the ribbons on top of one another to make an attractive pattern.

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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.