endianness

Noun

Meaning

endianness (countable and uncountable, plural endiannesses)

(computing) 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.

Examples

Accessed 26 Sept 2014 The order of bits within a byte can also have endianness (as discussed later); however, a byte is typically handled as a numerical value or character symbol and so bit sequence order is obviated. Source: Internet

An attempt to read such file on a system of the other endianness then results in a run-time error, because the count fields are incorrect. Source: Internet

A computer's or CPU's "sex" can also mean the endianness of the computer architecture used. Source: Internet

An octet may be encoded as a sequence of 8 bits in multiple different ways (see endianness ) so there is no unique and direct translation between bytestreams and bitstreams. Source: Internet

It was designed for backward compatibility with ASCII and to avoid the complications of endianness and byte order marks in the alternative UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings. Source: Internet

It would also imply the file's "endianness" as those units employed little endian (V64) and big endian (Z64) byte alignment. Source: Internet

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