Meanings
plural endiannesses
- countableuncountablecomputingThe property of being either big-endian or little-endian.
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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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/OutputEndianness comes in two varieties: big and little.
2006, Michael Barr, Anthony Massa, Programming Embedded Systems, page 99An 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
Synonyms & antonyms
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Translations
Chinese Cantonese 位元組順序 /位元组顺序
- 位元組順序 /位元组顺序 (wai⁶ jyun⁴ zou² seon⁶ zeoi⁶)the property of being either big-endian or little-endian
Chinese Mandarin 字節序 /字节序, 字節順序 /字节顺序
- 字節序 /字节序 (zìjiéxù)the property of being either big-endian or little-endian
- 字節順序 /字节顺序 (zìjié shùnxù)the property of being either big-endian or little-endian
- 位元組順序 /位元组顺序 (wèiyuánzǔ shùnxù)the property of being either big-endian or little-endian
Czech endianita
- endianitathe property of being either big-endian or little-endian
Finnish tavujärjestys
- tavujärjestysthe property of being either big-endian or little-endian
Polish kolejność bajtów
- kolejność bajtówthe property of being either big-endian or little-endian
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