batting average

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noun

1. (baseball) a measure of a batter's performance;
the number of base hits divided by the number of official times at bat (Freq. 2)
- Ted Williams once had a batting average above .400
• Syn:
hitting average
• Topics:
baseball, baseball game
• Hypernyms:
average
2. (an extension of the baseball term) the proportion of times some effort succeeds (Freq. 1)
- the salesman's batting average was 7 out of 12
• Topics:
baseball, baseball game
• Hypernyms:
proportion