Nesting may refer to:
Science and technology
* Building or having a
nest
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Nesting instinct, an instinct in pregnant animals to prepare a home for offspring
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Nesting (computing), a concept of information organized recursively
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Nesting (process)
In manufacturing industry, nesting refers to the process of laying out cutting patterns to minimize the raw material waste. Examples include manufacturing parts from flat raw material such as sheet metal.
Such process can also be applied to ad ...
, a process of efficiently manufacturing parts from flat raw material
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Nesting algorithm
Nesting algorithms are used to make the most efficient use of material or space by evaluating many different possible combinations via recursion.
#Linear (1-dimensional): The simplest of the algorithms illustrated here. For an existing set the ...
for optimal packing
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Nested sampling algorithm The nested sampling algorithm is a computational approach to the Bayesian statistics problems of comparing models and generating samples from posterior distributions. It was developed in 2004 by physicist John Skilling.
Background
Bayes' theorem ca ...
, a method in Bayesian statistics
* ''Nested variation'' or ''nested data'', described at
restricted randomization
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Nested case-control study
''Nested'' is the seventh studio album by Bronx-born singer, songwriter and pianist Laura Nyro, released in 1978 on Columbia Records.
Following on from her extensive tour to promote 1976's ''Smile'', which resulted in the 1977 live album ''Season ...
, a case when this occurs
Other uses
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Nesting (voting districts), the process of combining or splitting of voting districts
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Nesting, Shetland
Nesting is a parish in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It includes a part of the east Shetland Mainland, measuring about , along the seaboard from Gletness to Lunna Ness, and also the island of Whalsay and the Out Skerries. The coast is deeply ...
, in Scotland
* ''
The Nesting'', a 1981 American slasher film directed by Armand Weston
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''Nesting'' (film), a 2011 American romantic comedy film
See also
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All articles beginning with Nesting
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Nest (disambiguation)
A nest is a place animals live or raise offspring.
Nest may also refer to:
* Bird nests in particular
Places
* Nest Lake, a lake in Minnesota, US
* Nest Island, an island in Nunavut, Canada
People
* Nest ferch Cadell, mother of Rhodri the Gre ...
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Matryoshka doll, a Russian nested doll
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