Batch

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 Nuneaton and Coventry, England. The same term is also widely used on the Wirral.
• Small batch, 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, the use of distillation in batches
• Batch oven, a furnace used for thermal processing
• Batch production, a manufacturing technique
• Batch reactor, a type of vessel widely used in the process industries
• Economic batch quantity, a measure used to determine the quantity of units that can be produced at minimum average costs in a given batch or production run
• Fed-batch, a biotechnological batch process
• Glass batch calculation, the determination of the correct mix of raw materials for a glass melt
• Sequencing batch reactor, an industrial processing tank for the treatment of wastewater
• Batching & mixing plants, used in concrete production

Computer science

• Batch (Unix), a command to queue jobs for later execution
• Batch Enhancer, an applet launched by Norton Utilities to graphically enhance the presentation of batch files
• Batch file, 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, the execution of a series of programs on a computer without human interaction
• Batch renaming, 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, computer software that performs job scheduling
• Spring Batch, an open source framework for batch processing

People

• Baron Batch (born 1987), American football running back
• Emil Batch (1880–1926), American baseball player
• Colin Batch (born 1958), Australian hockey player
• Charlie Batch (born 1974), American football quarterback

Places

• Barns Batch Spinney, a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Dundry, Somerset, England
• Beacon Batch, the summit area of Black Down, the highest hill in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England

Miscellaneous

• Batch (album), an album by pop-punk band Big Drill Car
• Bach (New Zealand), pronounced "batch", a type of beach holiday home found in New Zealand