endianness

Definition

The property of being either big-endian or little-endian.

Etymology

From endian + -ness.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "Endianness comes in two varieties: big and little."