| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  b ch |
| NOUN: | 1. An amount produced at one baking: a batch of cookies. 2. A quantity required for or produced as the result of one operation: made a batch of cookie dough; mixed a batch of cement. 3. A group of persons or things: a batch of tourists; a whole new batch of problems. 4. Computer Science A set of data or jobs to be processed in a single program run. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: batched, batch·ing, batch·es
To assemble or process as a batch. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English bache, probably from Old English *bæcce, from bacan, to bake.
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