batch
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
batch/batʃ/
▶noun a quantity or consignment of goods produced at one time.
■ Computing a group of records processed as a single unit.
▶verb arrange (things) in sets or groups.– origin C15 (in the senses ‘process of baking’, ‘quantity produced at one baking’): based on an OE word rel. to bacan (see bake).
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