Batch meaning
A group of persons or things.
A batch of tourists; a whole new batch of problems.
noun
The amount (of bread, etc.) produced at one baking.
noun
The amount of material, as dough, needed for one operation.
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The quantity of anything made in one operation or lot.
noun
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(UK, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
noun
A number of things or persons taken as a group; lot; set.
noun
A group of programs, instructions, etc. for processing by a computer in a single run.
noun
To treat, process, etc. as part of a batch or together as a batch.
verb
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A group, or collection, of items.
In the oil industry, a specific amount of crude oil or refined product shipments that are sent through a pipeline. A batching sequence is the order in which shipments of crude oil or refined products are sent through a pipeline.
A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
We poured a bucket of water in top, and the ice maker spit out a batch of icecubes at the bottom.
noun
A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
noun
To aggregate things together into a batch.
The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.
verb
(computing) 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.
verb
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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.
adjective
(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.
verb
The definition of a batch means a group or collection of objects or the amount of something produced at one time.
A example of a batch is two loaves of bread.
noun
An amount produced at one baking.
A batch of cookies.
noun
A quantity required for or produced as the result of one operation.
Made a batch of cookie dough; mixed a batch of cement.
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A set of data or jobs to be processed in a single program run.
noun
To assemble or process as a batch.
verb
Origin of batch
- Middle English bache probably from Old English bæcce from bacan to bake
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English bache, bæcche, from Old English bæċe, beċe (“brook, stream”), from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰog- (“flowing water”). More at beach.
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- From Middle English bache (bacche), from Old English bæcce (“something baked”), from bacan (“to bake”). Compare German Gebäck and Dutch baksel.
From Wiktionary
- from an abbreviation of the pronunciation of bachelor (“unmarried adult male”)
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