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nesting

(1) In programming, the positioning of a loop within a loop. The number of loops that can be nested may be limited by the programming language. See loop.

(2) In a folder hierarchy, it refers to storing a folder inside another folder. You can nest folders inside of folders ad infinitum, but it becomes more unwieldy to retrieve them. See Win Folder organization.


nesting [′nest·iŋ]
(computer science)
Inclusion of a routine wholly within another routine.
Inclusion of a DO statement within a DO statement in FORTRAN.
(industrial engineering)
A production technique in which parts with similar patterns are manufactured together.


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On the slope of the right-hand hill white houses with brown roofs were settled, like nesting sea-birds, and at intervals cypresses striped the hill with black bars.
"I heard of a man, once, who invaded the nesting grounds of wild geese," Maud said.
For aviaries, I like them not, except they be of that largeness as they may be turfed, and have living plants and bushes set in them; that the birds may have more scope, and natural nesting, and that no foulness appear in the floor of the aviary.
 
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