nesting

See also: Nesting

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈnɛstɪŋ/
Hyphenation: nest‧ing

Verb

nesting

present participle and gerund of nest

Noun

nesting (countable and uncountable, plural nestings)

The process by which a bird nests.
Synonym: nestage
An arrangement by which one thing is nested inside another.
the nesting of Russian dolls
(programming) The enclosure of one self-contained element of code inside another.
Synonym: imbrication
- 2013 September 10, Sara Shahzad, Ibrar Ahmad, Mir Muhammd Suleman Sarwar, “Cyclomatic complexity: The nesting problem”, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2013)‎ (PDF), Islamabad, Pakistan: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, →DOI, archived from the original on 29 May 2023, page 275:
  The positioning of a control structure inside another control structure is called nesting e.g. nested-IF and nested-loop.

Derived terms

Translations

the process by which a bird nests

Catalan: nidificació m
French: nidification (fr) f
Polish: gniazdowanie (pl)

computing: enclosure of one loop, block, etc. of code inside another

Catalan: aniuament m
Spanish: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: nästling c

Anagrams

Tingens, ginnets, gnetins, tensing

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