byte order mark
nounEtymology From byte order + mark.
1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A character indicating the endianness of a string of text.
2
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Especially The Unicode character U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE.
- Synonyms
- BOM
- Hypernyms
- mark