Crossword clues for nesting
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "making or using a nest," past participle adjective from nest (v.). Of objects, "fitted into one another," from 1934.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The process by which a bird nests. 2 (context computing English) The enclosure of one loop, block, etc. of code inside another. vb. (present participle of nest English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
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.
In computing science and informatics, nesting is where information is organized in layers, or where objects contain other similar objects. It almost always refers to self-similar or recursive structures in some sense.
Nesting can mean:
- nested calls:
- using several levels of subroutines
- recursive calls
- nested levels of parentheses in arithmetic expressions
- nested blocks of imperative source code such as nested if-clauses, while-clauses, repeat-until clauses etc.
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information hiding:
- nested function definitions with lexical scope
- nested data structures such as records, objects, classes, etc.
- nested virtualization, also called recursive virtualization: running a virtual machine inside another virtual machine
Nesting may refer to:
- building or having a nest
- Nesting instinct
- Nesting, Shetland
- Nesting (computing)
- Nesting (international relations)
- Nesting (voting districts), the process of combining or splitting of voting districts
- Nesting (process), a process of efficiently manufacturing parts from flat raw material
- Nested sampling algorithm, a method in Bayesian statistics
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Nested variation or nested data, described at restricted randomization
- Nested case-control study, a case when this occurs
Nesting is the delimitation of voting districts for one elected body in order to define the voting districts for another body. For example, in California, the State Assembly (the lower house) is composed of 80 members, each one representing 1/80th of California's population, and the State Senate (the upper house) is composed of 40 members, each one representing 1/40th of California's population. In this case, the process of nesting could either be first defining the 80 Assembly districts, and then defining the Senate districts as a merge of two Assembly districts, or first defining the 40 Senate districts, and then creating the Assembly districts by splitting each Senate district into two. If the Assembly districts and the Senate districts are created independently of each other, then the process of nesting is not used.
The major concerns of nesting are:
- the practice may impede the creation of majority-minority districts
- the practice may cause cities or other communities with common concerns to be split into different voting districts (and therefore dilute their votes)
Nesting is an idea in international relations theory which posits that advanced democracies operating within political and economic alliances are more likely to seek absolute, rather than relative, gains as their economic health is “nested” with other advanced democracies in transnational alliances. In a nested arrangement, states are satisfied to see the success of other states within the same alliance as mutual success contributes to combined security. The idea was first proposed by Vinod Aggarwal and is most associated with neoliberalism. As a concept, nesting is generally incompatible with a realist understanding of the international system, which holds that states will not be indifferent to the gains of other states as gains by one state represent absolute losses by others.
Beyond the state level, inter-governmental organizations can, themselves, be nested within other inter-governmental organizations. For instance, the European Union is, itself, nested within the World Trade Organization. Study of institutional nesting is currently limited.
An example of nesting in practice may be the case of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). While some academics contend the CIS is a tool the Russian Federation uses to apply its regional hegemony, Michael Slobodchikoff of Troy University has alternatively argued that smaller CIS powers influence the state of regional cooperation, including concessions by Russia, by acting through the CIS. Slobodchikoff explains this as a case of nesting, contending that concessions would otherwise be unachievable were weak states to act independently through a bilateral framework with Russia.
Usage examples of "nesting".
Colonel Bogey had had the foresight to burn a large area of forest clear of nesting wildlife, and thus had not encountered the problem.
Just before closing it, he went to a cabinet and took out a little bubblewrap package containing the old daguerreotype of Edward, nesting it between two shirts.
They crossed a broad gravel riverbed dry and white in the sun and they climbed into a meadow where the grass was tall as the tires and passed under the truck with a seething sound and they entered a grove of ebony trees and drove out a nesting pair of hawks and pulled up in the yard of an abandoned estancia, a quadrangle of mud buildings and the remains of some sheep-pens.
They had missed the spectacular breeding colonies of the spring when the cliffs were white with nesting guillemots and razorbills and the puffin burrows honeycombed the turf, but there were other visitors now: the migrant goldcrests and fieldfares and buntings -and the seals, hundreds of them, returning to have their pups.
Which gave him great joy except for one minor consideration: the barking came from underneath the ground hi an alfalfa field where a thousand graceful, noisy birds called killdeer were nesting.
At first the nesting killdeer screeched and whistled in alarm, flying frantically in all directions and repeatedly dive-bombing the mad sheepherder dressed in rags, who paid them no mind.
Seabirds cried possessive calls of territoriality, warning others of their kind to keep away from private nesting niches, chiseled in the steep bluffs overlooking Grange Head harbor.
There was also evidence of an appalling skin disease that had left the face raw and weeping, with crusts of small pustules nesting around the eyes, nose and mouth.
Dragonets of many sizes and colors glided regally along the cliff faces, where they found safe nesting sites among the sheer walls.
He said he had hung many nesting boxes there and started a thriving colony of smew and goldeneye, and he did not want them disturbed.
From him Benjie learned how to take a nesting grouse, how to snare a dozen things, from hares to roebuck, how to sniggle salmon in the clear pools, and how to poach a hind when the deer came down in hard weather to the meadows.
What Tania stood to earn in the subsidiary sale would hopefully cover a complete design makeover for the condo, with some nesting money to spare.
Hold the bowstring back with your first three fingers, like this, nesting the arrow between the first two.
Down in the bird colony the brown and white and pink birds would be stalking in the shallows, or fighting or nesting, while up on the guanera the cormorants would be streaming back from their breakfast to deposit their milligramme of rent to the landlord who would no longer be collecting.
No one has ever seen a trilobite, since they exist only in the fossil record, but the sections of its bony thorax recorded in stone were so perfectly made that, when threatened, these creatures were able to curl up, each segment nesting into the next and protecting the soft animal underbodies.