Hitting 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 ("hitting 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)

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