1. nested - Adjective
2. nested - Verb
nested
simple past and past participle of nest
Embedded.
Successively fitted one inside another.
(lexicography) (Of a lexical item) contained within a dictionary entry as a subordinate term of the main headword.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgOnly love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks. Michael Chabon
History is a set of nested resonances with each epoch being shorter than the one that preceded it. This event horizon is like a series of ghost horizons, and once you enter into history, you enter into the outer shell of the temporal field of the attractor or the concrescence. Terence McKenna
My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there. Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
These changes in identity and location can easily become nested inside each other, many layers deep, even if you aren't doing anything nefarious. Once you have forgotten who and where you are, the whoami command is indispensible. Neal Stephenson
Unfortunately I don't live by a Target now, so I just go to a regular Starbucks as opposed to a Starbucks nested inside a Target, which is my ideal situation. That works out for me. I like that white noise, those interruptions, and the people around me. Diablo Cody
The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die. John Steinbeck