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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.

Computers.

a.	a group of jobs, data, or programs treated as a unit for computer processing.

b.	batch processing.

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.

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–verb (used without object), noun

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[Origin: tch to clarify and normalize pron.

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bach also batch Audio Help   (bāch) Pronunciation Key
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.]

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batch¹ Audio Help (bāch) Pronunciation Key
n.

An amount produced at one baking: a batch of cookies.
A quantity required for or produced as the result of one operation: made a batch of cookie dough; mixed a batch of cement.
A group of persons or things: a batch of tourists; a whole new batch of problems.
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.]

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batch² Audio Help (bāch) Pronunciation Key
n. & v. Informal
Variant of bach.

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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."

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batch
noun
1.	all the loaves of bread baked at the same time
2.	(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
3.	a collection of things or persons to be handled together
verb
1.	batch together; assemble or process as a batch

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batch [bӕtʃ] noun

a number of things made, delivered etc, all at one time
Example: a batch of bread; The letters were sent out in batches.

Arabic:	كميّه، دُفْعَةٌ مِن
Chinese (Simplified):	一次生产量；一批
Chinese (Traditional):	一次生產量；一批
Czech:	várka, dávka, balík
Danish:	bundt; portion
Dutch:	partij
Estonian:	tegu (leiba), partii, ports
Finnish:	erä
French:	tas, paquet
German:	die Menge
Greek:	φουρνιά, παρτίδα
Hungarian:	egy sütet, tétel, csomó
Icelandic:	samsafn, slatti, sending, hópur
Indonesian:	paket, adonan
Italian:	infornata; lotto, partita; mucchio

Japanese:	一群
Korean:	한 묶음, 1회분
Latvian:	cepiens
Lithuanian:	partija, siunta
Norwegian:	porsjon; sending
Polish:	plik, partia
Portuguese (Brazil):	fornada, lote
Portuguese (Portugal):	fornada
Romanian:	grămadă; pachet
Russian:	пачка; группа; кучка
Slovak:	dávka, várka; balík
Slovenian:	paket
Spanish:	hornada; lote
Swedish:	hop, omgång, bunt
Turkish:	yığın, grup, parti

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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.

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