(1) Processing a group of files or databases from start to completion rather than having the user open, edit and save each of them one at a time. For example, a graphics conversion utility can change ...

Many technologies used in biology — including high-throughput ones such as microarrays, bead chips, mass spectrometers and second-generation sequencing — depend on a complicated set of reagents and ...

(1) The management of documents or electronic media that have been grouped, cataloged and are waiting for processing. See batch processing. (2) An industrial control application that makes products in ...