## Meanings
1. A group of things or people dealt with at the same time.
2. An amount of food, especially bread or cakes, baked at one time.
3. A set of data processed together by a computer.
4. To group things together to handle them at the same time.

## Examples
- The teacher marked the first batch of exam papers tonight.
- We made a batch of cookies for the party.
- The system handles the requests in batches of fifty.
- I batched the orders so they could all be shipped together.

## Antonyms
- continuous

## Derived Forms
- batch-edit
- batchable
- batchmate
- batchwise
- interbatch
- intrabatch
- masterbatch
- microbatch
- minibatch
- prebatch
- rebatch
- subbatch

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: bach
- Root: *bæċċ
- Root: *bakku
- Root: *bakkuz

## Etymology
From Middle English bach, bache, bahche, from Old English *bæċċ (“something baked”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bakku, from Proto-Germanic *bakkuz (“baking, baked goods”), cognate with Middle High German becke (“something baked, pastry, baking, bakery”). Related also to Old English bacan (“to bake”), Old English ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.

## AI Etymology
Batch comes from Middle English bach, bache, bahche, from Old English *bæċċ (“something baked”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bakku, from Proto-Germanic *bakkuz (“baking, baked goods”), cognate with Middle High German becke (“something baked, pastry, baking, bakery”). Related also to Old English bacan (“to bake”), Old English ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.

## Topics
- Food & Drink
- Technology & Computing

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