HITTING AVERAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hitting average mean? 

• HITTING AVERAGE (noun)
  The noun HITTING AVERAGE has 1 sense:

1. (baseball) a measure of a batter's performance; the number of base hits divided by the number of official times at bat

  Familiarity information: HITTING AVERAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HITTING AVERAGE (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

batting average; hitting average

Context example:

Ted Williams once had a batting average above .400

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)