"nested" meaning in English

See nested in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} nested (not comparable)
  1. Embedded. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-nested-en-adj-WnJFKNck Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 26 32 30
  2. Successively fitted one inside another. Tags: not-comparable Translations (successively fitted one inside another): imbricat (Catalan), kerrosteinen (Finnish), imbriqué (French), verschachtelt (German), ένθετος (énthetos) (Greek), εμφωλευμένος (emfolevménos) (Greek), מקונן \ מְקֻנָּן (m'kunán) (Hebrew), вложенный (vložennyj) (Russian), ugniježden (Serbo-Croatian), anidado (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-nested-en-adj-6-rhKAVw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 26 32 30 Disambiguation of 'successively fitted one inside another': 2 90 8
  3. (lexicography) (Of a lexical item) contained within a dictionary entry as a subordinate term of the main headword. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Lexicography
    Sense id: en-nested-en-adj-L-RMD94Y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 26 32 30 Topics: human-sciences, lexicography, linguistics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: nested class

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} nested
  1. simple past and past participle of nest Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: nest
    Sense id: en-nested-en-verb-Ip9xA44b Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 26 32 30

Alternative forms

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