batting average

What does batting average mean?

batting average means "(baseball) a measure of a batter's performance; the number of base hits divided by the number of official times at bat". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for batting average?

Close synonyms include hitting average. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is batting average a common word?

batting average is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for batting average come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.