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misnested

misnested adjective: incorrectly nested. Also the simple past and past participle of misnest.

Adjective

misnested (not comparable)

  1. Incorrectly nested.
    • misnested parentheses
    • […] 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.1998, Jeff Frentzen, Henry Sobotka, Dewayne McNair, JavaScript Annotated Archives, page 28

Also used as

misnested is also the simple past and past participle of misnest.

Origin of misnested

From mis- + nested.

Questions about misnested

What does misnested mean?
Misnested means incorrectly nested.
What part of speech is misnested?
Misnested is an adjective.

Words near misnested in the dictionary

  1. misnegotiates
  2. misnegotiating
  3. Misner
  4. Misners
  5. misnest
  6. misnested
  7. misnesting
  8. misnests
  9. Misnia
  10. misnomed
  11. misnomer

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