batting average   (TTS Sound)

The noun batting average has 2 senses

• batting average, hitting average -- ((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")


• batting average -- ((an extension of the baseball term) the proportion of times some effort succeeds; "the salesman's batting average was 7 out of 12")