Definition of Nested

1. Verb. (past of nest) ¹

2. Verb. embedded ¹

3. Verb. successively fit inside another. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nested

1. nest [v] - See also: nest

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nested

nesslerized
nesslerizes
nesslerizing
nessness
nest
nest box
nest boxes
nest egg
nest eggs
nestable
nestbox
nestboxes
nested (current term)
nestedness
nester
nesters
nestful
nestfuls
nestin
nesting
nesting behaviour
nesting habitat
nesting place
nestings
nestle
nestled
nestler

Literary usage of Nested

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Traffic Library: Principles of Classification by American Commerce Association (1920)
"Definition of Term "nested." Under another section of this volume, "Packing Requirements and Rules," a comparison was made of the definitions of the term ..."

2. Igneous Rocks and Their Origin by Reginald Aldworth Daly (1914)
"Its tuffs and agglomerates dip inward because of subsidence of a normal volcanic cone during or after the growth of the pyroclastic deposit.1 nested sinks. ..."

3. Sas/stat 9.1 User's Guide by SAS Institute, Virginia Clark (2004)
"A random effects model for data from a completely nested design with two factors ... This model is appropriate for an experiment with a multi-stage nested ..."

4. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"'T is thus some shepherd from a caverned crag Stirs up the nested bees with plenteous fume Of bitter smoke; they, posting to and fro, Fly desperate round ..."

5. Bayesian Robustness: Proceedings of the Workshop on Bayesian Robustness, May by James O. Berger (1996)
"In this paper we consider issues related to the robustness of the IBF in the nested model situation. 1. Introduction. The problem of comparing two models is ..."

6. Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society by New York Mathematical Society (1892)
"He states, for instance, that the auxiliary ellipse may lie wholly within the innermost nested oval (see Annalen, vol. 38, p. 117). ..."

7. Annals of the American Revolution: Or, A Record of the Causes and Events by Jedidiah Morse (1824)
"... ({nested only to die the death of a soldier, and not on a gibbet. The following is a copy of a very pathetic letter from Major Andre to General ..."

8. Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme by Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, Karl Knight (1999)
"nested Calls to Synchronized Methods and Deadlock You might wonder what happens if one synchronized method invokes another one. In terms of our analogy, ..."

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