Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

byte order

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.15 in modern English

Syllables: byte order
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Order in which bytes are written or read, in memory or through a transmission; choices being big-endian or little-endian.

adj

Relating to the order of bytes, the endianness.

Example Sentences

"Under this order the first bit to be sent is the LEAST significant bit (B0) of the MOST significant byte (C0) of the first word, followed by the rest of the bits of this byte, then the same right-to-left bit order inside the left-to-right byte order."
"So that machines with different byte order conventions can communicate, the Internet protocols specify a canonical byte order convention for data transmitted over the network. This is known as network byte order."

Inflected Forms

byte orders (plural)

Phrases

byte order mark byte-order mark

Frequently Paired Words

bit order

Synonyms

endianness

Questions

What does byte order mean?: Order in which bytes are written or read, in memory or through a transmission; choices being big-endian or little-endian.

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