endian
/ˈendɪən/adjective
(用于短语big-endian或little-endian)
- Computing denoting a system of ordering bytes in a word, or bits in a byte, in which the most significant (or least significant) item is put first【计算机】字节序的。
词源
1980s: from Swift's Gulliver's Travels, in which bigendians and little-endians ate boiled eggs by breaking the 'big'end or 'little'end respectively.