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Batting average   /bˈætɪŋ ˈævərɪdʒ/   Listen
Batting average

noun
1.
(baseball) a measure of a batter's performance; the number of base hits divided by the number of official times at bat.  Synonym: hitting average.
2.
(an extension of the baseball term) the proportion of times some effort succeeds.





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"Batting average" Quotes from Famous Books



... Something is terribly wrong. Twenty-four pink cards in the last month. Twenty-four out of forty. That's a batting average of—He tried to figure it out with a pencil, but gave it up as a bad job. Maybe I'll run it through the Averagovac, he thought. But why bother? It's obvious that it's ...
— The Success Machine • Henry Slesar


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