little-endian

English

Etymology

See the etymology for endian.

Adjective

little-endian (not comparable)

1. (computing) Storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a higher address than the least significant byte; that is, "little end" first.
   • 1999, W. Curtis Preston, Unix Backup and Recovery, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 132:

     Most big Unix machines are big-endian, but Intel x86 machines and older Digital machines are little-endian.

Antonyms

• big-endian

Related terms

• endianness
• endianless

Further reading

• Endianness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia