batch

noun

1. The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.

   “We made a batch of cookies to take to the party.”

2. (broadly)A quantity of anything produced at one operation.

   “We poured a bucket of water in at the top, and the ice-maker dispensed a batch of ice-cubes at the bottom.”

3. A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.

   “c. 1710-1720, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Epistle to Lord Hervey on the King's Birthday a new batch of Lords”

4. A set of data to be processed at one time.

   “The system throttled itself to batches of 50 requests at a time to keep the thread count under control.”

5. (Midlands, UK, dialectal)A bread roll.
6. (Philippines)A graduating class; school class.

   “She was the valedictorian of Batch ’73.”

7. (obsolete)The process of baking.

   “Except the baker doe his part also in the batch.”

8. A bank; a sandbank.
9. A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.

verb

1. (transitive)To aggregate things together into a batch.

   “The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.”

   “Sound but more workaday fleeces are batched to make roving and yarn.”

2. (transitive)To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.

   “The purchase requests for the day were stored in a queue and batched for printing the next morning.”

3. (informal)To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.

   “I am batching next week when my wife visits her sister.”

adj

1. (not-comparable)Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.

   “The plant had two batch assembly lines for packaging, as well as a continuous feed production line.”

name

1. A surname.