Definitions

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  • adjective computing Not nested.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ nested

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Examples

  • Abby unnested herself reluctantly and smoothed the pillows back into place.

    Starting from Scratch Susan Gilbert-Collins 2010

  • And suddenly I have two apparently random labels showing, and one click brings a long unnested list of all 57 labels, which is almost impossible to read.

    Gmail's new label system. Or: Google have given up being usable. 2009

  • "Some fool shootin 'off his gun," Morgan heard a man growl as he passed under a window of a thin-sided house, from which the excited voices of women came like the squeaks of unnested mice.

    Trail's End George W. Ogden

  • Scorpions were unnested, and bats and owls made unhappy by daylight where daylight had never been before.

    The Prince of India — Volume 02 Lewis Wallace 1866

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