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- Suffix used in the terms big-endian and little-endian that describe the ordering of bytes in a multi-byte number

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Note added at 9 mins (2009-02-28 21:46:06 GMT)
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Deixaria sem tradução, mas com o seu significado entre parentesis:
-little-endian (bit menos importante no menor endereço
-big-endian (bit mais importante no maior endereço)

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Note added at 25 mins (2009-02-28 22:01:59 GMT)
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-endian format: formato da ordenação dos bites.

Como adijetivo, estes são os significados que encontrei:
-Adjective
endian (not comparable)
(computing) Of a computer, storing multibyte numbers with the most significant byte at a greater (little-endian) or lower (big-endian) address.

- endian (Hacking Lexicon )
The word "endian" refers to the order in which bytes are stored in memory or transmitted across the wire. Consider the decimal number "593", the digit "5" (five-hundred) is the most significant or "big" digit. The numbers 593 and 693 are significantly different, whereas the numbers 593 and 594 are not significantly different. When ordering bytes in memory, the term "big-endian" refers to putting the most significant byte first, whereas "little-endian" refers to putting the least significant byte first.

- endian (The free dicitionary)
: see byte order
-byte order: The way numbers are stored in a computer word, which is the basic unit of storage (computer words are 8, 16, 32 and 64 bits long).