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nested

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Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Mathematics.

(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.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of nested¹

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

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Then, a year to the day later, a hummingbird had nested outside Terry’s house, and it washed out in a storm, and Terry called Jean again, and Jean said to Terry, “Will you help me?”

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The nested movie is even called “The Georgetown Project,” a reference to the setting of “The Exorcist.”

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Painting on a bigger canvas, Mortensen gives his film a nested, at times unnecessarily complicated structure.

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Based on GPS tracking of more than 200 females, the URI study found that more than 80% of the tagged females nested more than once during migration -- some up to six times.

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On the other nested Passerea, which included pretty much everything else.

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