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Specification vs Coverage - What's the difference?

specification | coverage |

As nouns the difference between specification and coverage

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

specification

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.

    • Related terms

    * species * specific * specify

    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.