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Definition batch

Etymology 1

From Middle English bache, bacche, from Old English *bæ?e, *bæ??e (“baking; something baked”), from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“baking”), related to bacan (“to bake”). Compare German Gebäck, Dutch gebak, baksel.

Noun

batch (plural batches)

1. The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
2. A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
3. A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
4. (computing) A set of data to be processed with one execution of a program.
5. (Britain, dialectal, Midlands) A bread roll.
6. (Philippines) A graduating class.
7. (obsolete) The process of baking.

Verb

batch (third-person singular simple present batches, present participle batching, simple past and past participle batched)

1. (transitive) To aggregate things together into a batch.
2. (transitive, computing) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.

Adjective

batch (not comparable)

1. Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.

Etymology 2

From Middle English bache, bæcche, from Old English bæ?, be?e (“brook, stream”). More at beach.

Noun

batch (plural batches)

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

Etymology 3

from an abbreviation of the pronunciation of bachelor (“unmarried adult male”)

Verb

batch (third-person singular simple present batches, present participle batching, simple past and past participle batched)

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

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