English to English noun
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(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
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(an extension of the baseball term) the proportion of times some effort succeeds | | Example: the salesman's batting average was 7 out of 12
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