Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

endianness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English

Syllables: en-di-an-ness
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The property of being either big-endian or little-endian.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"When reading and writing data a byte at a time, it is necessary to know the endianness of the computer you are working on."
"The Unicode standard does not specifically does not require a particular endianness of text written in Unicode; both big- and little-endian encodings are allowed."
"Endianness comes in two varieties: big and little."
"An endianness difference can cause problems if a computer unknowingly tries to read binary data written in the opposite format from a shared memory location or file."

Etymology

Etymology tree English endian Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English endianness From endian + -ness.

Usage

Inflected Forms

endiannesses (plural)

Questions

What does endianness mean?: The property of being either big-endian or little-endian.
Where does endianness come from?: Etymology tree English endian Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English endianness From endian + -ness.

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