Coverage \Cov"er*age\, n.
1. the range of items covered. Coverage may be small (narrow
coverage], or large (broad coverage or wide
coverage).
[PJC]
2. The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract
of insurance.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. the state of being insured; insurance.
[PJC]
4. the areas reached by a radio transmission signal, or group
of people reached by a communications medium, such as
television or a newspaper.
[PJC]
5. the range of topics treated in a discourse or document, or
the depth to which a subject is discussed; as, a news
program may have extensive coverage of an event.
"gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Democratic convention."
[PJC]
6. the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio
of television; as, they accused the paper of biased
coverage of race relations.
Syn: reporting, reportage.
[WordNet 1.5]
Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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