Endianness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The property of being either big-endian or little-endian. countable, uncountable

    "When reading and writing data a byte at a time, it is necessary to know the endianness of the computer you are working on."

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byte order

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"When reading and writing data a byte at a time, it is necessary to know the endianness of the computer you are working on."

Etymology

From endian + -ness.

Related phrases

big endianlittle endian

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