nested

[nes-tid]

adjective

Mathematics.

1. (of an ordered collection of sets or intervals) having the property that each set is contained in the preceding set and the length or diameter of the sets approaches zero as the number of sets tends to infinity.

Word History and Origins

Origin of nested¹

First recorded in 1720–30; nest + -ed ³

Example Sentences

The bright structures around the planet were not solid extensions of the world itself, but separate rings formed from many thin, nested arcs.

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"They preserve microstructural and geochemical signals that tell us not only what kinds of animals laid them, but also where they nested and how they bred," he says.

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Instead, they identified immense, separate rings formed from innumerable nested arcs.

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He was mummified and buried in Luxor's Valley of the Kings inside three nested coffins, the smallest weighing 110kg, all placed within four gilded shrines like matryoshka dolls.

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Brent Ellis, principal analyst at market researcher Forrester, said the outage exposed what he called the "nested dependency" between popular digital platforms and the array of services providing the web's technical underpinnings.

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