misnested

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ nested

Adjective

misnested (not comparable)

  1. Incorrectly nested.
    misnested parentheses
    • 1998, Jeff Frentzen, Henry Sobotka, Dewayne McNair, JavaScript Annotated Archives, page 28:
      […] but it also reduces the likelihood of the "unterminated string literal" error message that can easily occur for seemingly trivial reasons when you're working with long strings — an accidental carriage return or a misnested quotation mark is all it takes.
    • 2000, Simon Brooke, “Any chance of Site feedback”, in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html (Usenet):
      Netscape is of course pretty buggy, but it generally handles nested tables OK so I suspect your problem is misnested or unclosed table tags […]

Verb

misnested

  1. simple past and past participle of misnest

Anagrams
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