endian

Etymology

end +‎ -ian; from a passage in Gulliver's Travels in which an emperor, after cutting his finger after opening an egg at the large end, commands his subjects to open them at the small end; those who comply are called “Little-Endians”, while those who rebel by opening their eggs at the large end are called “Big-Endians.”

Adjective

endian (not comparable)

1. (computing) Of a computer, storing multibyte numbers with the most significant byte at a greater (little-endian) or lower (big-endian) address.
   • 1980 April 1, Danny Cohen, Internet Experiment Note 137: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace‎:

     The root of the conflict lies much deeper than that. It is the question of which bit should travel first, the bit from the little end of the word, or the bit from the big end of the word? The followers of the former approach are called the Little-Endians, and the followers of the latter are called the Big-Endians.

Anagrams

• Aidenn, Andine, Dannie, Dianne, Nadine, indane

Etymology

From the noun ende.

Verb

endian

1. to end