endianness

noun

endianness

noun

Etymology From endian + -ness.

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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The 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.
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/Output:

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Endianness comes in two varieties: big and little.2006, Michael Barr, Anthony Massa, Programming Embedded Systems, page 99:
An 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:

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