ネスト

noun

nest; hive; rookery

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.

• 調ちょう査さ員いんは海うみ鳥どりのネストの位い置ちをGPSで記き録ろくした。

  The surveyors recorded the locations of the seabirds' nests with GPS.

noun

hideout; refuge; retreat

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.

• 彼かの女じょは郊こう外がいの小こ屋やを週しゅう末まつのネストと呼よんでいる。

  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.

• 設せっ定ていファイルではオブジェクトを三さん段だん階かいにネストしている。

  In the configuration file, the objects are nested three levels deep.

• ネストが深ふかすぎるコードは読よみにくい。

  Code with too much nesting is hard to read.