Batch
/bætʃ/noun
A quantity or group of things produced, handled, or considered together.
Did you know?Batch is historically related to bake, because it began as a word for a loaf or quantity of bread baked at one time, not a mystical term but a very old word from everyday food-making.
Etymological Timeline
Old English
OE
bæcce
“a loaf of bread baked at one time; a baking”
Middle English
ME
bacche
“a baking; a quantity of baked bread”
15th Century
English
batche
“a loaf or set of loaves baked together”
16th–17th Century
English
batch
“a quantity produced or dealt with at one time”
Modern English
English
batch
“a group or quantity handled together, especially in production”