Method of storing or transmitting data in which the most significant bit or byte is presented first. Compare with little-endian.

A format for transmission or storage of binary data in which the most significant byte (bit) appears first. [After X9.42]

[From Swift's `Gulliver's Travels' via the famous paper `On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace' by Danny Cohen, USC/ISI IEN 137, dated April 1, 1980] adj. 1. Describes a computer archi [..]

Internet Glossary Refers to which bytes are most significant in multi-byte data types. In big-endian architectures, the leftmost bytes (those with a lower address) are most significant. In little-endian architectures, the rightmost bytes are most significant. For example, consider the number 1025 (2 to the tenth power plus one) stored in a 4-byte i [..]

The adjectives big-endian and little-endian refer to which bytes are most significant in multi-byte data types and describe the order in which a sequence of bytes is stored in a computer��s memory. In [..]

Java presumes that binary data is stored most significant byte first. Even if internally this is not so, Java completely hides that fact. All files it probuces are big-endian, network order. endian

A format for storage or transmission of binary data in which the most significant bit comes first.

Big-endian refers to the way that data is sequentially stored in computer memory. Just as in books or magazines, where the first word appears in the top-left-hand corner of each page, the data in a bi [..]

From Swift: someone who eats eggs big end first. Also used of computers that store the most significant byte of a word at a lower byte address than the least significant byte. Often considered superior to little-endian machines. See also little-endian.

From Swift: someone who eats eggs big end first. Also used of computers that store the most significant byte

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 byte appears first. In a multi-byte value, the byte containing the most significant bit is stored in the lowest memory [..]