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batch

noun
/bæt͡ʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English bach, bache, bahche, from Old English *bæċċ (“something baked”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bakku, from Proto-Germanic *bakkuz (“baking, baked goods”), cognate with Middle High German becke (“something baked, pastry, baking, bakery”). Related also to Old English bacan (“to bake”), Old English ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.

  1. inherited from *bakkuz✻ — “baking, baked goods”
  2. inherited from *bakku✻
  3. inherited from *bæċċ✻ — “something baked”
  4. inherited from bach

Definitions

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

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

  2. 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.

  3. A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next…

    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
  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. 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.

    2. A bread roll.

    3. A graduating class

      A graduating class; school class.

      • She was the valedictorian of Batch ’73.

    4. The process of baking.

      • Except the baker doe his part also in the batch.

    5. To aggregate things together into a batch.

      • The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.
      • Sound but more workaday fleeces are batched to make roving and yarn.

    6. 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.

    7. 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.

    8. A bank

      A bank; a sandbank.

    9. A field or patch of ground lying near a stream

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

    10. 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.

    11. A surname.

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Derived

batch-edit, batch file, batch job, batchmate, batch picking, batch processing, batch production, batch queue, batchwise, interbatch, intrabatch, masterbatch, microbatch, minibatch, multi-batch picking, prebatch, subbatch, zone-batch picking, zone-batch-wave picking, batchable, batch up, rebatch

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at batch. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at batch. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at batch

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA