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batch

Pronunciation: /bæt͡ʃ/

The English word “batch” has 14 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
  2. A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
  3. A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
  4. A group of bakers.
  5. A set of data to be processed at one time.
  6. A graduating class; school class.
  7. A bread roll.
  8. The process of baking.
  9. A bank; a sandbank.
  10. A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.

verb

  1. To aggregate things together into a batch.
  2. To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
  3. To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.

adjective

  1. Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.

Etymology

From Middle English bach, bache, bahche, from Old English *bæċċ (“something baked”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bakku, from Proto-Germanic *bakkuz (“baking, baked goods”), cognate with Middle High German becke (“something baked, pastry, baking, bakery”). Related also to Old English bacan (“to bake”), Old English ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German…

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