Usually means: Organizing elements within hierarchical structure.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word nesting:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. nesting: Merriam-Webster
  2. nesting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. nesting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Nesting, nesting: Wordnik
  5. nesting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. nesting: Wiktionary
  7. nesting: Dictionary.com
  8. nesting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Nesting (computing), Nesting (process), Nesting (voting districts), Nesting, The Nesting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. nesting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. nesting: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. nesting: Netlingo
  2. nesting: CCI Computer
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. nesting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pregnancy & Baby (No longer online)
  2. nesting: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nesting: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nesting: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  2. K & A glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Nesting)

▸ noun:  The process by which a bird nests.
▸ noun:  An arrangement by which one thing is nested inside another.
▸ noun:  (programming) The enclosure of one self-contained element of code inside another.
▸ noun:  A parish on the east coast of Mainland, Shetland Islands council area, Scotland.

Similar:
birdnesting, birds'-nesting, birdsnest, bird's nest, bird-nesting, nestling, nidificant, nester, nidulation, sitting, more...

Opposite:
unstacking, dispersing, scattering, disarranging

Types:
Russian doll, nested doll, nested boxes, nested matryoshka, nested matrioshka, more...

Phrases:
nesting place, nesting places, nesting boxes, birds nesting, nesting box, more...

Adjectives:
bird, colonial, communal, successful, hierarchical, late, second, arbitrary, deep, early, proper

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     olive,     sage,     mustard, more...



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Similar:
birdnesting, birds'-nesting, birdsnest, bird's nest, bird-nesting, nestling, nidificant, nester, nidulation, sitting, more...

Opposite:
unstacking, dispersing, scattering, disarranging

Types:
Russian doll, nested doll, nested boxes, nested matryoshka, nested matrioshka, more...

Phrases:
nesting place, nesting places, nesting boxes, birds nesting, nesting box, bird nesting, nesting instinct, avian nesting, nesting doll, bit of nesting material, nesting ground, nesting site, more...

Adjectives:
bird, colonial, communal, successful, hierarchical, late, second, arbitrary, deep, early, proper

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     olive,     sage,     mustard, more...



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