Batch may refer to:

Food and drink

* Batch (alcohol), an alcoholic fruit beverage * Batch loaf, a type of bread popular in Ireland * A dialect term for a

bread roll Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour (usually wheat) and water, usually by baking. Throughout recorded history and around the world, it has been an important part of many cultures' diet. It is one of the oldest human-made food ...

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 i ...

, the use of distillation in batches * Batch oven, a furnace used for thermal processing *

Batch production Batch production is a method of manufacturing where the 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 prod ...

, a manufacturing technique *

Batch reactor The batch reactor is the generic term for a type of vessel widely used in the process industries. Its name is something of a misnomer since vessels of this type are used for a variety of process operations such as solids dissolution, product mix ...

, 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 gi ...

, 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 treatment of wastewater. SBR reactors treat wastewater such as sewage or output from anaerobic digesters or mechanical biological treatmen ...

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

Computer science

Batch (Unix) In computing, at is a command in Unix-like operating systems, Microsoft Windows, and ReactOS used to schedule commands to be executed once, at a particular time in the future. Design Unix-like On Unix-like operating systems, at reads a series ...

, 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 co ...

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

Batch file Batch may refer to: Food and drink * Batch (alcohol), an alcoholic fruit beverage * Batch loaf, a type of bread popular in Ireland * A dialect term for a bread roll used in North Warwickshire, Nuneaton and Coventry, as well as on the Wirra ...

, 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 b ...

, the process of renaming multiple computer files and folders in an automated fashion * DEC BATCH-11/DOS-11, 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, a machine learning technique

People

Baron Batch Baron Batch (born December 21, 1987), self-styled "The Artist", a Pittsburgh-based entrepreneur and former American football running back who retired from the NFL in 2013. He played college football at Texas Tech University. Batch chose to pla ...

(born 1987), American football running back * Emil Batch (1880–1926), American baseball player *

Colin Batch Colin Batch (born 27 March 1958) is a professional international field hockey coach and former international player from Australia. Batch is the head coach of the Australian Men's national hockey team the ''Kookaburras'' following his appointm ...

(born 1958), Australian hockey player *

Charlie Batch Charles D'Donte Batch (born December 5, 1974) is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the second round of the 1998 NFL Draft and played 15 seasons in t ...

(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 (pronounced 'batch' ) (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. In the middle of the ...