misnest

M3I1S1N1E1S1T1

verb

To err when nesting one item or set of items within another.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

verbmisnest (third-person singular simple present misnests, present participle misnesting, simple past and past participle misnested)

present singular third person misnests · participle present misnesting · participle past misnested · past misnested

  1. ambitransitiveTo err when nesting one item or set of items within another.

    Are there tags in places where they're not allowed? Have you tried to misnest tags anywhere ?

    1999, Ann Navarro, Todd Stauffer, HTML by Example, page 314
    3 more examples

    dUTIL can assist in the location of certain types of logic errors, primarily those involving misnesting of logical constructs or missing symbols.

    1985 November 12, Glenn A. Hart, “A Smorgasbord Of Fox & Geller Enhancements For dBASE III”, in PC Mag, volume 4, number 23, page 239

    In this case, the problem is easily solved by the same parentheses that ought to be used to prevent misnesting of arithmetic operations.

    1992, NeXT Computer, Inc, NeXTSTEP Development Tools and Techniques: Release 3, page 12-30

    Improper use can cause misnesting, operator precedence problems, duplication of side effects, and other problems.

    2013, Keith Lee, Pro Objective-C, page 88

Origin

Cite this entry
APA

misnest. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misnest

MLA

“misnest.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misnest. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misnest,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misnest.

Source: misnest on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.