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Meaning of endian | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1
ˈɛn.dɪ.ən

Definitions

Preceded by a qualifying word: of a computer: storing multibyte numbers with the most significant byte at a particular memory address; for example, at the smallest address (big-endian) or the largest address (little-endian).

not-comparable

Examples

“endian-neutral code”
“In Ken Turkowski's article on the big and little endian addressing used on the 68020 he commented that Motorola's approach "proved" that a machine with consistant^([sic]) bit addressing (e.g., all little or big endian) was impossible. I assume that he was joking.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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