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English noun: batting average

1. batting average (baseball) a measure of a batter's performance; the number of base hits divided by the number of official times at bat


SamplesTed Williams once had a batting average above .400.


Synonymshitting average


Broader (hypernym)average


Domain categorybaseball, baseball game

2. batting average (an extension of the baseball term) the proportion of times some effort succeeds


SamplesThe salesman's batting average was 7 out of 12.


Broader (hypernym)proportion


Domain categorybaseball, baseball game









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