batch

adj. 1. Non-interactive. Hackers use this somewhat more loosely than the
traditional technical definitions justify; in particular, switches on a
normally interactive program that prepare it to receive non-interactive
command input are often referred to as batch mode switches. A batch file is
a series of instructions written to be handed to an interactive program
running in batch mode. 2. Performance of dreary tasks all at one sitting. I
finally sat down in batch mode and wrote out checks for all those bills; I
guess they'll turn the electricity back on next week... 3.

