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endianness en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English endian Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English endianness From endian + -ness.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The property of being either big-endian or little-endian.
   • The Unicode standard does not specifically does not require a particular endianness of text written in Unicode; both big- and little-endian encodings are allowed. 1999, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java Input/Output:
   • When reading and writing data a byte at a time, it is necessary to know the endianness of the computer you are working on.
   • An endianness difference can cause problems if a computer unknowingly tries to read binary data written in the opposite format from a shared memory location or file. 2012, Albert J. Marcella, Cyber Forensics, page 116:
   • Endianness comes in two varieties: big and little. 2006, Michael Barr, Anthony Massa, Programming Embedded Systems, page 99:

Forms

Translations (7)

cs endianita (the property of being either big-endian or little-endian) · yue 位元組順序 /位元组顺序 (the property of being either big-endian or little-endian) · fi tavujärjestys (the property of being either big-endian or little-endian) · pl kolejność bajtów (the property of being either big-endian or little-endian) · cmn 字節序 /字节序 (the property of being either big-endian or little-endian) · cmn 字節順序 /字节顺序 (the property of being either big-endian or little-endian) · cmn 位元組順序 /位元组顺序 (the property of being either big-endian or little-endian)