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Meaning of Nesting | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈnɛstɪŋ

Definitions

  1. A parish on the east coast of Mainland, Shetland Islands council area, Scotland.
  2. The process by which a bird nests.
  3. An arrangement by which one thing is nested inside another.
  4. The enclosure of one self-contained element of code inside another.

Equivalents

Examples

“the nesting of Russian dolls”
“The positioning of a control structure inside another control structure is called nesting e.g. nested-IF and nested-loop.”

CEFR level

C2
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