Definition of "nesting" []

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

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• "But I prefer the term nesting rhymes because the words nest one inside the other like Russian wooden dolls."
• "Wane not though, my dear, for we definitely will return too a city I now understand why nesting is inevitable."
• "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."