Nesting

Nesting may refer to:

Science and technology

 * Building or having a nest
 * Nesting instinct, an instinct in pregnant animals to prepare a home for offspring
 * Nesting (child custody), a child custody arrangement in which the children stay in the home
 * Nesting (computing), a concept of information organized recursively
 * Nesting (process), a process of efficiently manufacturing parts from flat raw material
 * Nesting algorithm for optimal packing
 * Nested sampling algorithm, a method in Bayesian statistics
 * Nested variation or nested data, described at restricted randomization
 * Nested case-control study, a case when this occurs

Other uses

 * Nesting (voting districts), the process of combining or splitting of voting districts
 * Nesting, Shetland, in Scotland
 * The Nesting, a 1981 American slasher film directed by Armand Weston
 * Nesting (film), a 2011 American romantic comedy film