average vs fielding average

fielding average vs average

average and fielding average both are nouns.

average is an adjective but fielding average is not an adjective.

average is a verb but fielding average is not a verb.

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

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

average: (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities
fielding average: (baseball) a measure of a fielder's performance; the number of assists and putouts divided by the number of chances

Other hyponyms of average include batting average, hitting average.

average (noun)	fielding average (noun)
a statistic describing the location of a distribution	(baseball) a measure of a fielder's performance; the number of assists and putouts divided by the number of chances
an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual
(sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities

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

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