BATTING AVERAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does batting average mean? 

• BATTING AVERAGE (noun)
  The noun BATTING AVERAGE has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: BATTING AVERAGE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATTING AVERAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

batting average; hitting average

Context example:

Ted Williams once had a batting average above .400

Hypernyms ("batting average" is a kind of...):

average ((sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(an extension of the baseball term) the proportion of times some effort succeeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Context example:

the salesman's batting average was 7 out of 12

Hypernyms ("batting average" is a kind of...):

proportion (the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)