misnested
English
Etymology
Adjective
misnested (not comparable)
- Incorrectly nested.
- 1998, Jeff Frentzen, Henry Sobotka, Dewayne McNair, JavaScript Annotated Archives (page 28)
- […] but it also reduces the likelihood of the "unterminated string literal" error message that can easily occur for seemingly trivial reasons when you're working with long strings — an accidental carriage return or a misnested quotation mark is all it takes.
- 2000, "Simon Brooke", Any chance of Site feedback (on newsgroup comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html)
- Netscape is of course pretty buggy, but it generally handles nested tables OK so I suspect your problem is misnested or unclosed table tags […]
- 1998, Jeff Frentzen, Henry Sobotka, Dewayne McNair, JavaScript Annotated Archives (page 28)
- misnested parentheses
Verb
misnested
- simple past and past participle of misnest