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Nesting may refer to:
Science and technology
edit- Building or having a nest
- Nesting instinct, an instinct in pregnant animals to prepare a home for offspring
- Nesting (child custody), a child custody arrangement in which the children stay in the home
- Nesting (computing), a concept of information organized recursively
- Nesting (process), a process of efficiently manufacturing parts from flat raw material
- Nesting algorithm for optimal packing
- Nested sampling algorithm, a method in Bayesian statistics
- Nested variation or nested data, described at restricted randomization
- Nested case-control study, a case when this occurs
Other uses
edit- Nesting (voting districts), the process of combining or splitting of voting districts
- Nesting, Shetland, in Scotland
- The Nesting, a 1981 American slasher film directed by Armand Weston
- Nesting (film), a 2011 American romantic comedy film
See also
edit- All articles beginning with Nesting
- Nest (disambiguation)
- Matryoshka doll, a Russian nested doll