The Wordle word of December 27, 2025 was batch, a word that sounds administrative even before you examine it. It carries the faint smell of registers, queues and processes. Nobody romanticises a batch ...

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Batch processing, or batch production, is a scaled-down version of assembly line production. Products are produced in groups instead of in continuous streams as they are on assembly lines. However, ...