average vs batting average

batting average vs average

average and batting average both are nouns.

average is an adjective but batting average is not an adjective.

average is a verb but batting average is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
average	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
batting average	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, batting average is a hyponym of average; that is, batting average is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than average:

average: (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities
batting average: (baseball) a measure of a batter's performance; the number of base hits divided by the number of official times at bat

Other hyponyms of average include hitting average, fielding average.

average (noun)	batting average (noun)
a statistic describing the location of a distribution	(baseball) a measure of a batter's performance; the number of base hits divided by the number of official times at bat
an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual	(an extension of the baseball term) the proportion of times some effort succeeds
(sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities

average (adjective)	batting average (adjective)
lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
around the middle of a scale of evaluation
lacking exceptional quality or ability
relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)
approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value
relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution

average (verb)	batting average (verb)
compute the average of
achieve or reach on average
amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain

Difference between average and batting average

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