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misnesting

misnesting is the present participle and gerund of misnest.

Meaning of misnest

Verb

misnest (third-person singular simple present misnests, present participle misnesting, simple past and past participle misnested)

  1. (ambitransitive) To err when nesting one item or set of items within another.
    • dUTIL can assist in the location of certain types of logic errors, primarily those involving misnesting of logical constructs or missing symbols.1985 November 12, Glenn A. Hart, “A Smorgasbord Of Fox & Geller Enhancements For dBASE III”, in PC Mag, volume 4, number 23, page 239

Questions about misnesting

What is misnesting the present participle and gerund of?
Misnesting is the present participle and gerund of misnest.

Words near misnesting in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misnesting (page history and authors); misnest (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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