unnestedadj.1
/(ˌ)ʌnˈnɛstᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənˈnɛstəd/ Now rare.
Removed from a nest; removed from a place of safety or comfort.
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1833 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 482/1 A little brood that by this blow of fate have become unnested and turned adrift.
1860 C. Patmore Faithful for Ever i. 5 No more the unnested blackbird's shriek Startled the light-leaved wood.
1914 Survey 25 July 438/2 The little unnested children cried.
1960 A. Sexton To Bedlam & Part Way Back 34 You are shepherded down starch halls with the other unnested throng in wheeling baskets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
unnestedadj.2
/(ˌ)ʌnˈnɛstᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənˈnɛstəd/ 1. Of objects: not manufactured or arranged so that one fits into another.
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1902 Ann. Rep. War Dept. I. 417 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (57th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Doc. 2, Pt. 1) IV Even a hundred unnested tin cups look bulky in company property.
1921 R. S. MacElwee & T. R. Taylor Wharf Managem. xi. 188 Stowage factors vary from about 9 for pig lead to over 1,000 for unnested wicker baskets.
1969 Traffic World 19 July 10/2 Nested and un-nested articles would be considered a straight shipment.
2007 J. Marchese Violin Maker ii. 23 The planes get increasingly smaller, and lined up they look like a set of unnested Russian dolls.
2. Mathematics and Logic. Of abstract elements or entities: not falling within the scope of other abstract elements, esp. in the same hierarchical structure.
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1955 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 20 176 A function φ(n1,…,nk, a), defined by a k-recursion (over n1,…, nk) which is unnested except for terms of the form φ(nk, x1,…, xk) is primitive recursive.
1984 Adv. Archaeol. Method & Theory 7 135 Additional hierarchical levels may take the form of nested or unnested clusters of clusters.
2012 G. J. Tourlakis Theory Computation v. 370 The various techniques employed to tackle loop correctness can be successful in all instances of the problem only when we have un-nested loops.
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