Batting average (original) (raw)

I. (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

Example:

Ted Williams once had a batting average above .400

Synonyms:

batting average; hitting average

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

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

Example:

the salesman's batting average was 7 out of 12

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

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)

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