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little-endian en · ADJ

Etymology

See the etymology for endian.

Meanings

(not-comparable) Storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a higher address than the least significant byte; that is, "little end" first.
- Most big Unix machines are big-endian, but Intel x86 machines and older Digital machines are little-endian. 1999, W. Curtis Preston, Unix Backup and Recovery, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 132:

Antonyms

Relateds

endianless · endianness

Translations (1)

pl cienkokońcowość (computing: storing the least significant byte at a lower address)