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1. (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
    
2. (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