7. (v.t.)batch to combine, mix, or process in a batch.
Etymology: (1400–50; late ME bache, akin to bacan to bake)
Definition of 'Batch'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)batch all the loaves of bread baked at the sametime
2. (noun)batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad (often followed by `of') a largenumber or amount or extent "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
3. (verb)batch, clutch a collection of things or persons to be handled together
2. (verb)Batch a quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business
Definitions of 'Batch'
The New Hacker's Dictionary
1. Batch 1. Non-interactive. Hackers use this somewhat more loosely than the
traditional technical definitions justify; in particular, switches on a
normally interactive program that prepare it to receive non-interactive
command input are often referred to as batch
mode switches. A batch
file is a series of instructions written to be handed to an
interactive program running in batch mode.
2. Performance of dreary tasks all at one sitting. “I finally
sat down in batch mode and wrote out checks for all those bills; I guess
they'll turn the electricityback on next week...”