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HITTING AVERAGE
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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)
