Batch definition

From < < . Compare German and Dutch .

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

We made a batch of cookies to take to the party.
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.
A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
- A new batch of Lords. --Lady M. W. Montagu.
A set of data to be processed with one execution of a program.

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

To aggregate things together into a batch.

The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.
To batch process a set of input data or requests.

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

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.

from an abbreviation of the pronunciation of

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.

Often with : "I usually batch it three nights a week when she calls on her out-of-town accounts."