Term: average: (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities
Candidate hypernym: ratio: the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient) → 1
Candidate hypernym: allegheny chinkapin: shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts → 0
Candidate hypernym: hydrofoil: a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through → 0
Candidate hypernym: limestone salamander: similar to Shasta salamander; lives in cliff crevices and taluses → 0
Candidate hypernym: airmail: letters and packages that are transported by aircraft → 0
Candidate hypernym: cleat: a strip of wood or metal used to strengthen the surface to which it is attached → 0
Candidate hypernym: directional microphone: a microphone that is designed to receive sound from a particular direction → 0
Candidate hypernym: markov process: a simple stochastic process in which the distribution of future states depends only on the present state and not on how it arrived in the present state → 0
Candidate hypernym: depreciation allowance: an allowance for loss due to depreciation → 0
Candidate hypernym: animalism: the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature → 0
Candidate hypernym: oxidation number: the degree of oxidation of an atom or ion or molecule; for simple atoms or ions the oxidation number is equal to the ionic charge → 0