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FIELDING AVERAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(baseball) a measure of a fielder's performance; the number of assists and putouts divided by the number of chances
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("fielding average" is a kind of...):
average ((sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities)
Domain category:
ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)