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.