nesting en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈnɛstɪŋ/
Meanings
- (countable, uncountable) The process by which a bird nests.
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(countable, uncountable) An arrangement by which one thing is nested inside another.
the nesting of Russian dolls
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(countable, uncountable) The enclosure of one self-contained element of code inside another.
The positioning of a control structure inside another control structure is called nesting e.g. nested-IF and nested-loop.
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) (PDF), Islamabad, Pakistan: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, →DOI, archived from the original on 29 May 2023, page 275:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| nestings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
empty nesting · nesting doll · bird-nesting · nesting box · nesting ground
Synonyms
Translations (11)
es anidación (the process by which a bird nests) · fr nidification (the process by which a bird nests) · es anidamiento (the process by which a bird nests) · ca aniuament (computing: enclosure of one loop, block, etc. of code inside another) · fi pesiminen (the process by which a bird nests) · fi sisäkkäisyys (computing: enclosure of one loop, block, etc. of code inside another) · fi pesintä (the process by which a bird nests) · ca nidificació (the process by which a bird nests) · es nidificación (the process by which a bird nests) · pl gniazdowanie (the process by which a bird nests) · sv nästling (computing: enclosure of one loop, block, etc. of code inside another)