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A quantity used or made at one time. A group of people or things that arrive or are dealt with together.

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  • A fresh batch of ginger cookies had just been removed from the oven.
  • A batch of letters
  • Using the term batch mode here can be misleading, since the GNU Emacs Manual says:
  • My favorite discovery included in this batch is a band called Eluveitie (pronounced El-way-tea).
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  • To "bach" means to live as a bachelor, and a "bache" is a valley that has a small stream. A "batch" can be either a group or quantity, while to "batch" is to combine or mix something.
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