batch🔊

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

(by extension) 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. +

(computing) A set of data to be processed at one time.

(Midlands) A bread roll.

(Philippines) A graduating class; school class.

(obsolete) The process of baking.

To aggregate things together into a batch.

(computing) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.

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

A bank; a sandbank.

A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.

(informal) To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.