endian
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
end + -ian; from a passage in Gulliver's Travels in which an emperor, after cutting his finger after opening an egg at the large end, commands his subjects to open them at the small end; those who comply are called “Little-Endians”, while those who rebel by opening their eggs at the large end are called “Big-Endians.”
Adjective [edit]
endian (not comparable)
- (computing) Of a computer, storing multibyte numbers with the most significant byte at a greater (little-endian) or lower (big-endian) address.
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Old English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From the noun ende
Verb [edit]
endian (weak class 2)
- to end
