FIELDING AVERAGE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

(baseball) a measure of a fielder's performance; the number of assists and putouts divided by the number of chances

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("fielding 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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