In 2011, the average salary for all surgeons and physicians was $184,650 a year, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But extremely high or low salaries can skew the average, and median wage is usually a better indication of earning potential. Half of all surgeons earn $187,000 or more a year.
a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together: a batch of prisoners. 2. the quantity of material prepared or required for one operation: mixing a batch of concrete. 3. the quantity of bread, cookies, dough, or the like, made at one baking.
time and prepared for processing as a single unit or batch. Example: A cheque processing system in a bank. All the cheques received in a particular time frame, say on a particular day are then sorted by the account number and processed in a batch. The following diagram shows the Batch transactions processing application.