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adjective
- 1. (of similar objects of graduated sizes) placed or stored one inside the other: "a set of three nested tables"
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to put a piece of information, text, etc. inside another, or at a lower level in a system: Each document has a root element and all elements must be nested within other elements. Text documents often comprise nested regions like lists within lists or procedures within procedures. More examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
to put a piece of information, text, etc. inside another, or at a lower level in a system: Each document has a root element and all elements must be nested within other elements. Text documents often comprise nested regions like lists within lists or procedures within procedures. More examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
Nested definition: (of an ordered collection of sets or intervals) having the property that each set is contained in the preceding set and the length or diameter of the sets approaches zero as the number of sets tends to infinity.. See examples of NESTED used in a sentence.
nested in American English. (ˈnestɪd) adjective. Math (of an ordered collection of sets or intervals) having the property that each set is contained in the preceding set and the length or diameter of the sets approaches zero as the number of sets tends to infinity.
The meaning of NEST is a bed or receptacle prepared by an animal and especially a bird for its eggs and young. How to use nest in a sentence.
a. A structure or shelter made or used by a bird to hold its eggs during incubation and to house its young until fledged. b. A structure or shelter in which other animals, such as reptiles, fish, or insects, deposit their eggs or tend their young. c. A structure or complex built by ants, termites, or other social animals to house a colony. d.
Dictionary definition of nested. Organized or arranged in a series of layers or interconnected structures, with one element enclosed or contained within another. "The Russian dolls were nested inside one another, creating a set of decreasing size." Detailed meaning of nested.
In computing science and informatics, nesting is where information is organized in layers, or where objects contain other similar objects. It almost always refers to self-similar or recursive structures in some sense.
the activity of building a nest, or of caring for eggs or baby birds or animals in a nest: The trees are attractive to birds for nesting. Turtle nesting has declined by about 22%. Scientists observe that frog breeding, bird nesting, and flowering are all happening earlier in the year.
verb. Simple past tense and past participle of nest. Wiktionary. Embedded. Wiktionary. Successively fit inside another. Wiktionary. Nested Sentence Examples. Formerly the trumpeter swan nested here. But the rule plan will again be the nested loop over two index scans.
