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In some senses, batch is marked as informal, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
We made a batch of cookies to take to the party.
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.
c. 1710-1720, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Epistle to Lord Hervey on the King's Birthday a new batch of Lords
A set of data to be processed at one time.
The system throttled itself to batches of 50 requests at a time to keep the thread count under control.
A bread roll.
verb
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.
adj
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.