nesting
- noun
- /ˈnɛstɪŋ/
- Specialized
- In programming, nesting functions allows for better organization of code and can simplify complex tasks.
And so it's kind of a quadruply nested loop or something like that.
- And so it's kind of a quadruply nested loop or something like that.
- It's sort of like a, a big idea, you know, like some nested anecdotes.
- Maybe the planets are the separations occupy orbits and the separations between nested Platonic solids.
- So the point is you, your attention is kind of drilling deep in and out of these nested structures.
- Because you could have many functions nested inside each other, more than just two.
- I do want to point out one group of nested ideas that I think helps explain this phenomenon.
- And I gave this crazy, crazy long winded proof where it had like this like nested chain of modules.
- So they're many nested principal agent challenges.
Examples
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The beauty of this API, the way this is designed is the simplicity and understandability you get when nesting calls to async.
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Nesting of timescales allows cells to immediately take into account both slow and fast perturbations in their state.
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Because you could have many functions nested inside each other, more than just two.
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This is an example of a nested loop, right?
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We'll call it coordinator and we'll have it be a nested class.
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So it's nested as we say, it forms a hierarchy.
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I do want to point out one group of nested ideas that I think helps explain this phenomenon.
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Within the sections are nested other narrative poems, some of them prose poems, some of them long poems.
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And this is called nested tuplets 'cause you have tuplets, which is a polyrhythm and then you nest tuplets inside of the tuplet.
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The nesting of multiple classes within a single file helps to maintain a clear structure in the application.
Synonyms
An arrangement of people or things in levels with higher levels controlling lower ones
An order of parts or ideas that makes them easy to understand
A group of things where each one fits inside a similar smaller one
A way of organising information in levels like a tree
An arrangement of data in levels where groups contain smaller groups, like folders and files
A way of arranging information in branches like a tree
To arrange people or things into levels of importance
A way of arranging ideas in steps to find deeper reasons
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Etymology
Nesting comes from nest, the idea of one thing placed inside another, like boxes inside boxes. In computing, 'nesting' means putting parts inside similar parts to make levels, which is why deep nesting can make code hard to read.