batch

Meanings

Noun

• The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
• A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
• A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
• A set of data to be processed with one execution of a program.
• A bread roll.
• A graduating class; school class.
• The process of baking.
• A bank; a sandbank.
• A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.

Verb

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

Adjective

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

Related

Opposite words

• continuous

Origin

• From Middle English bache, bacche, from Old English *bæċe, *bæċċe, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz ("baking"), related to bacan. Compare German Gebäck, Dutch gebak, baksel.
• From Middle English bache, bæcche, from Old English bæċ, beċe. beck. More at beach.
• from an abbreviation of the pronunciation of bachelor