A defense or safeguard.
A defensive wall or rampart.
A breakwater.
Any means of defence or security.
The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
To provide protection of defense for something.
Defense.
Journalism: the attention given by the press or news media about some news; the total of stories published or broadcast about a topic.
The average number of reads representing a given nucleotide in the reconstructed sequence.
The area covered by a mobile phone (cellphone) or other radio network.
The signal strength, reception of a radio signal.
The amount of space or time given to an event in newspapers or on television.
An amount by which something or someone is covered.