nesting

See also: Nesting

English

Pronunciation

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

Verb

nesting

1. present participle and gerund of nest

Noun

nesting (countable and uncountable, plural nestings)

1. The process by which a bird nests.

   Synonym: nestage

2. An arrangement by which one thing is nested inside another.

   the nesting of Russian dolls

4. (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)‎^[1] (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

• bird-nesting
• nesting box
• nesting doll

 

Translations

the process by which a bird nests

• Catalan: nidificació m
• Finnish: pesiminen (fi), pesintä (fi)
• French: nidification (fr) f
• Polish: gniazdowanie (pl)

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

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

Anagrams

• Tingens, ginnets, gnetins, tensing