Meaning

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

  "We made a batch of cookies to take to the party."

• (by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation.

  "We poured a bucket of water in at the top, and the ice-maker dispensed a batch of ice-cubes at the bottom."

• 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.

  "The system throttled itself to batches of 50 requests at a time to keep the thread count under control."

• A bread roll.

• A graduating class.

  "She was the valedictorian of Batch '73."

• The process of baking.

Meaning

• To aggregate things together into a batch.

  "The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement."

• To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.

  "The purchase requests for the day were stored in a queue and batched for printing the next morning."

Meaning

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

  "The plant had two batch assembly lines for packaging, as well as a continuous feed production line."