Nesting may refer to:
Science and technology
Parenting behavior
* Building or having a
nest
A nest is a structure built for certain animals to hold Egg (biology), eggs or young. Although nests are most closely associated with birds, members of all classes of vertebrates and some invertebrates construct nests. They may be composed of ...
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Nesting instinct
Nesting behavior is an instinct in animals during reproduction where they prepare a place with optimal conditions to nurture their offspring. The nesting place provides protection against predators and competitors that mean to exploit or kill of ...
, an instinct in pregnant animals to prepare a home for offspring
Things within other things of the same kind
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Nesting (computing)
In computing science and informatics, nestinghttps://study.com/academy/lesson/nesting-loops-stan C Programming is where information is organized in layers, or where objects contain other similar objects. It almost always refers to self-similar ...
, a concept of information organized recursively
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Nesting (process)
In manufacturing industry, nesting is 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, glass sheets, cloth rolls, cutting parts from ...
, a process of efficiently manufacturing parts from flat raw material
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Nesting algorithm for optimal packing
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Nested sampling algorithm, a method in Bayesian statistics
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Nested radical
In algebra, a nested radical is a radical expression (one containing a square root sign, cube root sign, etc.) that contains (nests) another radical expression. Examples include
\sqrt,
which arises in discussing the pentagon, regular pentagon, an ...
, a radical (i.e. mathematical notation for an ''n''th root) with other radicals inside it
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Nested intervals
In mathematics, a sequence of nested intervals can be intuitively understood as an ordered collection of Interval (mathematics), intervals I_n on the Interval (mathematics), real number line with natural number, natural numbers n=1,2,3,\dots as a ...
, in mathematics, intervals within intervals
* ''Nested variation'' or ''nested data'', described at
restricted randomization
In statistics, restricted randomization occurs in the design of experiments and in particular in the context of randomized experiments and randomized controlled trials. Restricted randomization allows intuitively poor allocations of treatments t ...
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Nested case-control study
''Nested'' is the seventh studio album by Bronx-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro. It was released in 1978 on Columbia Records.
Following on from her extensive tour to promote 1976's ''Smile'', which resulted in the 1977 live albu ...
, a case when this occurs
Other uses
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Nesting (child custody)
Child custody is a legal term regarding '' guardianship'' which is used to describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent or guardian and a child in that person's care. Child custody consists of ''legal custody'', which is the rig ...
, a child custody arrangement in which the children stay in the home
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Nesting (voting districts)
Nesting may refer to:
Science and technology Parenting behavior
* Building or having a nest
A nest is a structure built for certain animals to hold Egg (biology), eggs or young. Although nests are most closely associated with birds, members ...
, 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 de ...
, in Scotland
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The Nesting
''The Nesting'' (later released as ''Massacre Mansion'') is a 1981 American supernatural horror film directed and co-written by Armand Weston, and starring Robin Groves, Michael Lally, John Carradine, and Gloria Grahame in her final film role. I ...
'', 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)
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Matryoshka doll
Matryoshka dolls (), also known as stacking dolls, nesting dolls, Russian tea dolls, or Russian dolls, are a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another. The name ''Matryoshka'' is a diminutive form of ''Matryosha'' (), i ...
, a Russian nested doll
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