batches

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/ˈbætʃɪz/ English

Definitions

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.”

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.”

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

To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.“I am batching next week when my wife visits her sister.”