Batch may refer to:

Food and drink

Batch (alcohol) The term punch refers to a wide assortment of drinks, both non-alcoholic and Alcoholic drink, alcoholic, generally containing fruits or Juice, fruit juice. The drink was introduced from the Indian subcontinent to Kingdom of England, England by ...

, an alcoholic fruit beverage *

Batch loaf A plain loaf, slices of which are known in Scots as plain breid (pronounced ), is a traditional style of loaf made chiefly in Scotland and Ireland. It has a dark, well-fired crust on the top and bottom of the bread. There is no crust on the sid ...

, a type of bread popular in Ireland * A dialect term for a

bread roll A bread roll is a small, oblong individual loaf of bread served as a meal accompaniment (eaten plain or with butter). Rolls can be served and eaten whole or are also commonly cut and filled – the result of doing so is considered a '' sandwic ...

used in North Warwickshire, Nuneaton and Coventry, as well as on the Wirral, England *

Small batch Small batch whiskey is whiskey produced by mixing the contents of a relatively small number of selected barrels. Small batch whiskeys are commercially positioned for the upper-premium market. The term is most commonly used for American whiskey bu ...

, bourbon whiskey blended from selected barrels * Wiser's Small Batch, a Canadian whisky made in limited batches by Corby Distillery Ltd, Belleville, Ontario, Canada

Manufacturing and technology

Batch distillation Batch distillation refers to the use of distillation in batches, meaning that a mixture is distilled to separate it into its component fractions before the distillation still is again charged with more mixture and the process is repeated. This is in ...

, the use of distillation in batches *

Batch oven Batch ovens are a type of furnace used for thermal processing. They are used in numerous production and laboratory applications, including curing, drying, sterilizing, aging, and other process-critical applications. Sizes can vary depending on ...

, a furnace used for thermal processing *

Batch production Batch production is a method of manufacturing in which products are made as specified groups or amounts, within a time frame. A batch can go through a series of steps in a large manufacturing process to make the final desired product. Batch produ ...

, a manufacturing technique *

Batch reactor A batch reactor is a chemical reactor in which a non-continuous reaction is conducted, i.e., one where the reactants, products and solvent do not flow in or out of the vessel during the reaction until the target reaction conversion is achieved. By e ...

, a type of vessel widely used in the process industries *

Fed-batch Fed-batch culture is, in the broadest sense, defined as an operational technique in biotechnological processes where one or more nutrients (substrates) are fed (supplied) to the bioreactor during cultivation and in which the product(s) remain in ...

, a biotechnological batch process *

Glass batch calculation Glass batch calculation or glass batching is used to determine the correct mix of raw materials (batch) for a glass melt. Principle The raw materials mixture for glass melting is termed "batch". The batch must be measured properly to achieve a giv ...

, the determination of the correct mix of raw materials for a glass melt *

Sequencing batch reactor Sequencing batch reactors (SBR) or sequential batch reactors are a type of activated sludge process for the wastewater treatment, treatment of wastewater. SBRs treat wastewater such as sewage or output from anaerobic digesters or mechanical biolog ...

, an industrial processing tank for the treatment of wastewater * Batching & mixing plants, used in concrete production

Computer science

Batch (Unix) at is a shell command for scheduling commands to be executed at a future time; once. The command was developed for Unix and is available on Unix and Unix-like systems, Windows, and ReactOS. Variants Unix-like On Unix-like operating systems, a ...

, a command to queue jobs for later execution *

Batch Enhancer BATCH ENHANCER (or BE) (or BE.EXE,) is an applet or free-standing utility packaged with Norton Utilities (NU) to graphically enhance the presentation of batch files. Batch Enhancer allows the use of colours, square graphics, delays, beeps, more c ...

, an applet launched by Norton Utilities to graphically enhance the presentation of batch files *

Batch file A batch file is a Scripting language, script file in DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows. It consists of a series of Command (computing), commands to be executed by the command-line interpreter, stored in a plain text file. A batch file may contain a ...

, a text file containing a series of commands intended to be executed in DOS, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows * Batch Monitor, a software program created by Apple Computer for viewing and monitoring encoding tasks *

Batch processing Computerized batch processing is a method of running software programs called jobs in batches automatically. While users are required to submit the jobs, no other interaction by the user is required to process the batch. Batches may automatically ...

, the execution of a series of programs on a computer without human interaction *

Batch renaming Batch renaming is a form of batch processing used to rename multiple computer files and folders in an automated fashion, in order to save time and reduce the amount of work involved. Some sort of software is required to do this. Such software can ...

, the process of renaming multiple computer files and folders in an automated fashion *

DEC BATCH-11/DOS-11 BATCH-11/DOS-11, also known simply as DOS-11, is a discontinued operating system by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) of Maynard, Massachusetts. The first version of DOS-11 (V08-02) was released in 1970 and was the first operating system to run ...

, a computer operating system developed by Digital Equipment Corporation *

Portable Batch System Portable Batch System (or simply PBS) is the name of computer software that performs job scheduling. Its primary task is to allocate computational tasks, i.e., batch jobs, among the available computing resources. It is often used in conjunction ...

, computer software that performs job scheduling *

Spring Batch Spring Batch is an open source framework for batch processing. It is a lightweight, comprehensive solution designed to enable the development of robust batch applications, which are often found in modern enterprise systems. Spring Batch builds ...

, an open source framework for batch processing *

Batch learning In computer science, online machine learning is a method of machine learning in which data becomes available in a sequential order and is used to update the best predictor for future data at each step, as opposed to batch learning techniques whic ...

, a machine learning technique

People

Baron Batch Baron Vaun Batch (born December 21, 1987), self-styled "the Artist", is an American Pittsburgh-based entrepreneur and former professional American football, football running back who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football L ...

(born 1987), American football running back *

Emil Batch Emil Batch (January 21, 1880 – August 23, 1926) was an American professional baseball player who played third base and outfielder from 1904 to 1907 for the Brooklyn Superbas The Brooklyn Dodgers were a Major League Baseball team found ...

(1880–1926), American baseball player *

Colin Batch Colin Batch (born 27 March 1958) is a professional international field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in whic ...

(born 1958), Australian hockey player *

Charlie Batch Charles D'Donte Batch (born December 5, 1974) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Eastern Michigan Eagles. He was selected by the D ...

(born 1974), American football quarterback

Places

Barns Batch Spinney Barns Batch Spinney () is a 0.06-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Dundry, North Somerset, notified in 1987. The English Nature citation says that Barns Batch Spinney is important because of the exposure ...

, a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Dundry, Somerset, England *

Beacon Batch Black Down is the highest hill in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, in south-western England. Black Down lies just a few miles eastward of the Bristol Channel at Weston-super-Mare, and provides a view over the Chew Valley. The summit is marked with a ...

, the summit area of Black Down, the highest hill in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England * Beardly Batch, a hamlet in the parish of Pilton, Somerset, England

Miscellaneous

* ''Batch'' (album), an album by pop-punk band Big Drill Car *

Bach (New Zealand) A bach (sometimes spelled "batch" pronounced ), also called a crib in the southern half of the South Island, is a small, often modest holiday home or beach house in New Zealand. Baches are an iconic part of the country's history and culture. I ...