Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of a set of disputers about trifles. Also used adjectively. See big-endian.
Wiktionary
- adj. computing Of a computer, storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a higher address than the least significant byte; that is, "little end" first.
Etymologies
- See the etymology for endian (Wiktionary)
Examples
“There have been plenty of other apparently minor mistakes in computing that continue to create real headaches: for example, the different line end characters used on Windows, Unix, and Apple; or the big-endian/little-endian distinction in hardware integer representation.”
The Web’s Inventor Regrets One Small Thing - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“A number of .jpeg files, with headers, each prepended by a 24-bit (3-byte) little-endian value representing the size, and buffered at the end with nulls, so that they are at predictable locations (the jpeg modulo).”
“Companies can now leverage the power of Android for both big-endian and little-endian versions of MIPS processors for their SoCs targeting devices such as digital TVs (DTVs), set-top boxes (STBs) and a range of other applications in the digital home and beyond.”
“MIPS is luckily little-endian, same as ARM (as used in Nintendo DS) and the x86 architecture.”
“Libsndfile was designed to handle both big-endian (such as AIFF) and little-endian (such as WAV) data, and to compile and run correctly on little-endian (such as Intel and DEC/Compaq Alpha) processor systems as well as big-endian processor systems.”
“I don't like de-muxing and re-muxing unless it's all automated by a nice GUI, and Super (c) to make an AVI with a copy of the original video stream and PCM little-endian sound.”
“Debian fully supports a port to little-endian ARM.”
“File "setup. py", line 115, in endianness_macro raise AssertionError ( "Machine is neither little-endian nor big-endian")”
“CConn: Using ZRLE encoding CConn: Throughput 20001 kbit / s - changing to hextile encoding CConn: Throughput 20001 kbit / s - changing to full colour CConn: Using pixel format depth 24 (32bpp) little-endian rgb888”
“Converting the password string into a sequence of UTF-16 bytes (represented in little-endian byte order), you should get the following:”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘little-endian’.
-
Babble Tech
Go Babble! Words, if you can call them that, from the world of technology and computers. I'll try to make sure each one is represented by a Wordnik example.
cifsiostat, nfsiostat, mpstat, iostat, pidstat, sar, sysstat, cron, fetchmail, zypper, mysqldump, rsync and 102 more...
-
More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
transpontine, fetichistic, everduring, tachygraphic, tachygraphical, holographic, holographical, spectrobolographic, autographic, chirographal, autographal, ipsographic and 1419 more...
-
spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for little-endian.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.