1. a quantity or consignment of goods produced at one time: "a batch of cookies"
▪ a number of things or people regarded as a group or set: "a batch of hostile letters came"
▪ a group of records processed as a single unit, usually without input from a user:"this should be run as a batch program from the process directory"
verb
1. arrange (things) in sets or groups:"I had nothing to do but batch the reports"
Word Originlate 15th century (in the senses ‘process of baking’, ‘quantity produced at one baking’): based on an Old English word related to bacan (see bake1). Current senses date from the early 18th century.
