Usually means: Enclosed within similar, multiple layers.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word nested:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. nested: Merriam-Webster
  2. nested: Collins English Dictionary
  3. nested: Vocabulary.com
  4. Nested, nested: Wordnik
  5. nested: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. nested: Wiktionary
  7. nested: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. nested: Dictionary.com
  9. nested: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Nested: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. nested: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nested: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nested: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nested: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nested: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nested: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nested)

adjective:  Embedded.
adjective:  Successively fitted one inside another.
adjective:  (lexicography) (Of a lexical item) contained within a dictionary entry as a subordinate term of the main headword.

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