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batch

1  [bach]
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–noun
1. a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together: a batch of prisoners.
2. the quantity of material prepared or required for one operation: mixing a batch of concrete.
3. the quantity of bread, cookies, dough, or the like, made at one baking.
4. Computers.
a. a group of jobs, data, or programs treated as a unit for computer processing.
b. batch processing.
5. Glassmaking.
a. a quantity of raw materials mixed in proper proportions and prepared for fusion into glass.
b. the material so mixed.
–verb (used with object)
6. to combine, mix, or process in a batch.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME bache, akin to bacan to bake; cf. OE gebæc, G Gebäck batch

Synonyms:
1. group, lot, number, bunch, gang, set, pack, flock, troop.

batch

2  [bach]
–verb (used without object), noun
bach.
Origin:
tch to clarify and normalize pron.
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bach also batch   (bāch)   
n.  A bachelor.
intr.v.   bached also batched, bach·ing also batch·ing, bach·es also batch·es
To live alone and keep house as a bachelor.

[Short for bachelor.]
batch 1   (bāch)   
n.  
  1. An amount produced at one baking: a batch of cookies.
  2. A quantity required for or produced as the result of one operation: made a batch of cookie dough; mixed a batch of cement.
  3. A group of persons or things: a batch of tourists; a whole new batch of problems.
  4. Computer Science A set of data or jobs to be processed in a single program run.
tr.v.   batched, batch·ing, batch·es
To assemble or process as a batch.

[Middle English bache, probably from Old English *bæcce, from bacan, to bake.]
batch 2   (bāch)   
n.   & v. Informal
Variant of bach.
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Batch

Batch\, n. [OE. bache, bacche, fr. AS. bacan to bake; cf. G. geb["a]ck and D. baksel. See Bake, v. t.]

1. The quantity of bread baked at one time.

2. A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business. "A new batch of Lords." --Lady M. W. Montagu.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : batch
Spanish: hornada; lote,
German: die Menge,
Japanese: 一群
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batch

adj.
1. Non-interactive. Hackers use this somewhat more loosely than the traditional technical definitions justify; in particular, switches on a normally interactive program that prepare it to receive non-interactive command input are often referred to as `batch mode' switches. A `batch file' is a series of instructions written to be handed to an interactive program running in batch mode.
2. Performance of dreary tasks all at one sitting. "I finally sat down in batch mode and wrote out checks for all those bills; I guess they'll turn the electricity back on next week..."
3. `batching up': Accumulation of a number of small tasks that can be lumped together for greater efficiency. "I'm batching up those letters to send sometime" "I'm batching up bottles to take to the recycling center."
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batch 
O.E. *bæcce "something baked," from bacan "bake." Batch is to bake as watch is to wake and match ("one of a pair") is to make. Extended 1713 to "any quantity produced at one operation."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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