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🧁 A group together 📦 To group items
to batch

to batch

1 3.8
To group items together to work on at the same time
  • verb
  • /bætʃ/
translation icon : agrupar
  • To improve efficiency, many companies prefer to batch their production tasks together.
  • batched together

I can go through IVF and batch some embryos, so I could save two or three for that second baby that I'm not going to transfer for a few years.

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Examples

  • In addition, the system allows orders to be batched together.

    Academic text (2000)

  • Claims passing the EDI center's edit checks are reported to the claims company as having been batched and received.

    Academic text (2002)

  • So along those lines, can you batch them together?

  • And for that reason, I'll batch recording for sponsors in a similar way.

  • I tend to batch my errands, especially if I have to get in the car.

    Blog text (6)

  • So I'm a big believer in batching content.

  • One vendor, who usually batches shipments together to arrive in May but typically not June, changed their pattern in 2013.

    Academic text (2015)

  • An important consideration in scaled-up production of UHPC is the precision in batching different mixture ingredients.

    Academic text (2017)

  • The result is that e-book budgets for individual firm orders in the science disciplines were batched by selectors in the Marston Science Library and used to purchase a large e-book package.

    Academic text (2015)

  • The system allows you to batch the files for processing at once.

Synonyms

to bunch
vsto batch
30 1.2

To gather things or people into a group

groups items for combined handling or processing as one lot
to chunk
vsto batch
1 3.9

To group similar things together into larger units

groups items for combined processing rather than just forming large units

Compounds

batch processing
  • Specialized
1 3.9

A way to run many computer tasks one after another without a person doing each

How Large

to batch
1 3.8
to group
38 1.2
to pair
115 2.2

Surface Forms

batch infinitive
batched past
batched past participle
batching present participle
batches third person singular

Etymology

Batch as a verb comes from the idea of items 'baked' together and is related to bake, so to batch things is like putting them into one group to be done together. That's why people batch orders or documents to save time.