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  • verb Present participle of nest.
  • noun The process by which a bird nests.
  • noun computing The enclosure of one loop, block, etc. of code inside another.

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Examples

  • But I prefer the term nesting rhymes because the words nest one inside the other like Russian wooden dolls.

    The Miss Rumphius Effect 2009

  • This model possesses an implicit temporal dimension because the nesting is based on the relative recency of common ancestry, but it lacks a horizontal dimension of time.

    A New Book 2010

  • This model possesses an implicit temporal dimension because the nesting is based on the relative recency of common ancestry, but it lacks a horizontal dimension of time.

    A New Book 2010

  • Wane not though, my dear, for we definitely will return too a city I now understand why nesting is inevitable.

    Cathedrals have a way of calling! 2009

  • This model possesses an implicit temporal dimension because the nesting is based on the relative recency of common ancestry, but it lacks a horizontal dimension of time.

    A New Book 2010

  • Wane not though, my dear, for we definitely will return too a city I now understand why nesting is inevitable.

    Cathedrals have a way of calling! 2009

  • Wane not though, my dear, for we definitely will return too a city I now understand why nesting is inevitable.

    Cathedrals have a way of calling! 2009

  • This model possesses an implicit temporal dimension because the nesting is based on the relative recency of common ancestry, but it lacks a horizontal dimension of time.

    A New Book 2010

  • Wane not though, my dear, for we definitely will return too a city I now understand why nesting is inevitable.

    Cathedrals have a way of calling! 2009

  • This model possesses an implicit temporal dimension because the nesting is based on the relative recency of common ancestry, but it lacks a horizontal dimension of time.

    A New Book 2010

  • My husband, my nesting partner, is the person I own a home with. I also have life-partnership friends, I call them my wives, who are core members in the polycule. One of their husbands is one of my best friends and occasional sexual partner, and I do have sex with my wives, but we’re not romantically involved. But I love them.

    Lessons From a 20-Person Polycule Interviews by Daniel BergnerPhotographs by Anne Vetter 2024

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