Nesting

Nesting may refer to:

Science and technology

Parenting behavior

• Building or having a nest
• Nesting instinct, an instinct in pregnant animals to prepare a home for offspring

Things within other things of the same kind

• 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 radical, a radical (i.e. mathematical notation for an nth root) with other radicals inside it
• Nested intervals, in mathematics, intervals within intervals
• Nested variation or nested data, described at restricted randomization
• Nested case-control study, a case when this occurs

Other uses

• Nesting (child custody), a child custody arrangement in which the children stay in the home
• 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 (2012 film), an American romantic comedy film directed by John Chuldenko
• Nesting (2025 film), a Canadian thriller film directed by Chloé Cinq-Mars

See also

• Nest (disambiguation)
• Matryoshka doll, a Russian nested doll