Definition of "batch" in English

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. (by extension) 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. (computing) 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. (UK, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.

6. (Philippines) A graduating class; school class.

   • She was the valedictorian of Batch ’73.

7. (obsolete) The process of baking.

verb

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

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

2. (transitive, 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.

adjective

1. 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.

noun

1. A bank; a sandbank.

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

verb

1. (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.