Batch operation

Batch operation or batch (English batch "an oven filling during baking", transferred "packets / stacks one behind the other") stands for:

• a production process in process engineering, see batch process
• sequential command processing in programming, see batch processing
• a command line script language that can be executed under DOS, OS / 2 and Windows, see BAT file
• a variant of the at command on UNIX / Linux
• one of the job classes (QBATCH) under OS / 400

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Wiktionary: batch  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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