Endian

Origin

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.”

Full definition of endian

Adjective

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

Related terms

• big-endian
• endianness
• little-endian

Anagrams

• Aidenn
• Dannie
• Dianne
• indane
• Nadine