batting average vs average

average vs batting average

batting average and average both are nouns.

batting average is not an adjective while average is an adjective.

batting average is not a verb while average is a verb.

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

As nouns, average is a hypernym of batting average; that is, average is a word with a broader meaning than batting average:

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

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

batting average (adjective)	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

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

Difference between batting average and average

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