Noun: batting average 'ba-ting'a-vu-rij
- (baseball) a measure of a batter's performance; the number of base hits divided by the number of official times at bat
"Ted Williams once had a batting average above .400";
- hitting average
- (an extension of the baseball term) the proportion of times some effort succeeds
"the salesman's batting average was 7 out of 12"
Derived forms: batting averages
Type of: average, proportion
Encyclopedia: Batting average