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PRONUNCIATION:  bch
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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