1. placed or arranged inside something else in a series of layers or levels
2. organized in a hierarchical structure where items are contained within other items
Usage: computing; technical

1. past tense and past participle of nest; built or settled in a nest

Examples

• The nested folders on my computer help organize my files.
• She found nested Russian dolls at the antique shop.
• The programmer used nested loops to process the data.
• Birds nested in the old oak tree every spring.
• The nested tables fit perfectly inside each other.
• His nested parentheses made the equation hard to read.
• The robins nested under the porch eaves last year.