Definition of "batch" []

• An amount produced at one baking: a batch of cookies. (noun)
• A quantity required for or produced as the result of one operation: made a batch of cookie dough; mixed a batch of cement. (noun)
• A group of persons or things: a batch of tourists; a whole new batch of problems. (noun)
• Computer Science A set of data or jobs to be processed in a single program run. (noun)
• To assemble or process as a batch. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Using the term batch mode here can be misleading, since the GNU Emacs Manual says:"
• "The most interesting domain in the batch is a domain for an Ant-Man movie: ANT-MAN-THEMOVIE. COM."
• "My favorite discovery included in this batch is a band called Eluveitie (pronounced El-way-tea)."