noun
A katakana term for an animal nest, hive, or breeding site. In ordinary Japanese, 巣 is usually the more common word; ネスト can sound specialized, borrowed, or technical depending on context.
調査員は海鳥のネストの位置をGPSで記録した。
The surveyors recorded the locations of the seabirds' nests with GPS.
noun
Rare or stylistic use for a private refuge or hideaway. 隠れ家, 避難所, or 休息場所 are usually more straightforward in ordinary Japanese.
彼女は郊外の小屋を週末のネストと呼んでいる。
She calls the cottage in the suburbs her weekend retreat.
noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'
nesting; nested structure
Computing use for placing one structure inside another, such as loops, conditions, objects, tags, or data structures. Often used as ネストする and in phrases such as ネストが深い.
設定ファイルではオブジェクトを三段階にネストしている。
In the configuration file, the objects are nested three levels deep.
ネストが深すぎるコードは読みにくい。
Code with too much nesting is hard to read.