batches
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Definitions ofbatches
- The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
Synonyms: recipe
Example: "We made a batch of cookies to take to the party."
- (by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
Example: "We poured a bucket of water in at the top, and the ice-maker dispensed a batch of ice-cubes at the bottom."
- A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
- A set of data to be processed with one execution of a program.
Example: "The system throttled itself to batches of 50 requests at a time to keep the thread count under control."
- A bread roll.
- A graduating class.
Example: "She was the valedictorian of Batch '73."
- The process of baking.
- To aggregate things together into a batch.
Example: "The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement."
- To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
Example: "The purchase requests for the day were stored in a queue and batched for printing the next morning."
- A bank; a sandbank.
- A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
- To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.
Example: "I am batching next week when my wife visits her sister."
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