Nested definition: (of an ordered collection of sets or intervals) having the property that each set is contained in the preceding set and the length or diameter of the sets approaches zero as the number of sets tends to infinity.. See examples of NESTED used in a sentence.
Simple past tense and past participle of nest. Embedded. Successively fit inside another. Formerly the trumpeter swan nested here. But the rule plan will again be the nested loop over two index scans. The pen, named Sally by local people, nested at the Penny Pond in 1996 and had one cygnet.
Organized or arranged in a series of layers or interconnected structures, with one element enclosed or contained within another. "The Russian dolls were nested inside one another, creating a set of decreasing size."
nest•ed (nes′ tid), adj. [Math.] Mathematics (of an ordered collection of sets or intervals) having the property that each set is contained in the preceding set and the length or diameter of the sets approaches zero as the number of sets tends to infinity.
Successively fitted one inside another. The "Terms" number is the total number of words and lexical phrases, including sub-headwords and other nested lexical items, but exclusive of variants. The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables.
