(Historical) The ordering of the components of a hierarchical name in which the domain name is specified first, for example: uk.ac.sussex.library rather than library.sussex.ac.uk. This was the normal or NRS ordering used on JANET, and sometimes referred to as nrsname or UK order in mail documentation, however this is no longer the recommended order for names. See also little-endian.
A method of storing or transmitting data where the most significant bit or byte is presented first. (The name is an allusion to Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," which contained characters so named because they believed that boiled eggs should be eaten from the "big end" first.) See little-endian.
a storage scheme in which the most significant unit of data or an address is stored at the lowest memory address. [SILC99
A method of storing data so that the most significant byte appears in a lower-numbered location in memory.
A type of byte ordering in which the most significant bytes are in the lowest, or leftmost, storage locations. Java, OS/390, most mainframes, and networks use big-endian. Some minicomputers and workstations also use it. See: byte order, endian, and little-endian. Also known as network-byte-order.
memory encoding of multi-cell integer data, where the most significant cell ("big-end") is stored first, i.e. cells of decreasing significance are stored at increasing addresses; symmetrically, in the little-endian memory encoding, the least significant cell ("little-end") is stored first, i.e. cells of increasing significance are stored at increasing addresses
A data format in which multibyte values are stored with the most significant values lowest in memory. This is the format used on Apple Macintosh computers and most Sun workstations, for example.
Used interchangeably with network-byte-order to mean the most significant byte in a word comes first; opposite of little-endian where the least significant byte comes first.
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A binary data format in which the most significant byte or bit comes first. See also little-endian.
A format for storage or transmission of binary data in which the most significant bit (or byte) comes first. The term comes from "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift. The Lilliputians, being very small, had correspondingly small political problems. The Big-Endian and Little-Endian parties debated over whether soft- boiled eggs should be opened at the big end or the little end. See also: little-endian. [Source: RFC1208
The hardware design in which the most significant bits of a multi-byte integer are stored in the byte with the lowest address. Big-endian is the default storage order in MIPS processors. Opposed to little-endian.
Refers to the most significant byte first order in which bytes of a multi-byte value (such as a 32-bit dword value) are stored. For example a decimal value of 457,851 is represented as 0x0006FC7B in hexidecimal and would be stored in a file as: 0x00, 0x06, 0xFC, 0x7B. Many Moterola proccessors (Macintosh) use Big-Endian. The opposite byte ordering method is called Little-Endian.
adj. Refers to storage of a multi-byte quantity with the most-significant byte at the lowest address. See also byte order.
A format For storage or transmission of binary data in which the most significant bit (or byte) comes first. The reverse convention is called little-endian.
A processor memory architecture in which byte N is the most significant, and in conventional layout diagrams, is the leftmost byte of: A word composed of bytes N and (N + 1). A doubleword composed of bytes N, (N + 1), (N + 2), and (N + 3). A K-byte memory entity composed of bytes N, (N + 1),...,(N + K – 1). The address of the preceding word, doubleword, or K-byte entity is its most significant byte, N. Some RISC processors can be configured for either big-endian or little-endian byte addressing. For a big-endian configuration, the most significant bit of a 16-bit short value is the leftmost bit at byte N, while the least significant bit is the rightmost bit of byte (N + 1). The terms "big-endian" and "little-endian" are derived from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. See also little-endian.
adj. A data representation for a multibyte value that has the most significant byte stored at the lowest memory address. Note that only the bytes are reordered, never the nibbles or bits that comprise them. Every processor stores its data in either big-endian or little-endian format. Sun's SPARC, Motorola's 68k, and the PowerPC families are all big-endian. The Java virtual machine is big-endian as well. Similarly, every communications protocol must define the byte order of its multibyte values. TCP/IP uses big-endian representation. [ more] EXAMPLE: If the 32-bit value 0x12345678 is located at address 1000d in memory, its most significant byte, 0x12, would be found at location 1000d. Location 1001d would contain the next most significant byte, 0x34; location 1002d would contain 0x56; and location 1003d would contain the least significant byte, 0x78.
Method of storing or transmitting data in which the most significant bit or byte is presented first. Compare with little-endian.
