Batched

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The technique of sorting various items or data into cohesive groups for effective processing
2. Collected items or data combined into groups for collective handling
3. Organized into sets to be dealt with simultaneously

Etymology: "Batched" is the past tense and past participle of "batch," a noun that began as a word for something baked. Its Old English ancestor, "bæċċ," meant "something baked," and it grew from the same root as "bake" and "bacan," the Old English verb for baking. Dutch and German preserve the link in "gebak" and "Gebäck," both meaning pastry or baked goods. So a batch was once literally a single baking, the loaf or tray of bread produced in one go. From there the sense widened to any quantity made or handled at one time, and eventually to the idea of processing a group of items together, which is where the verb comes in. The verb "batch" and its past forms are therefore a modern extension of that sense of a single baking.

Synonyms: grouped, compiled, assembled, collected, compiled

Antonyms: individual, single, separate, dispersed, isolated