Definition of "endian" [endian]

• Of a computer, storing multibyte numbers with the most significant byte at a greater (little-endian) or lower (big-endian) address. (adjective)

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• "There have been plenty of other apparently minor mistakes in computing that continue to create real headaches: for example, the different line end characters used on Windows, Unix, and Apple; or the big-endian/little-endian distinction in hardware integer representation."
• "As I said earlier, the oiv data files are in big-endian format and therefore need to be accessed differently than the others."
• "A number of .jpeg files, with headers, each prepended by a 24-bit (3-byte) little-endian value representing the size, and buffered at the end with nulls, so that they are at predictable locations (the jpeg modulo)."