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nestings

nestings is the plural of nesting.

Meaning of nesting

Noun

nesting (countable and uncountable, plural nestings)

  1. The process by which a bird nests.
    Synonyms:
    nestage
  2. An arrangement by which one thing is nested inside another.
    • the nesting of Russian dolls
  3. 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...
    Synonyms:
    imbrication

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Questions about nestings

What is nestings the plural of?
Nestings is the plural of nesting.

Words near nestings in the dictionary

  1. nesting boxes
  2. nesting doll
  3. nesting dolls
  4. nesting ground
  5. nesting together
  6. nestings
  7. nestitherapy
  8. nestle
  9. nestle-bird
  10. nestle-birds
  11. nestle-cock

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