Usually means: Byte order: most significant first.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. big-endian: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. big-endian: Wordnik
  3. big-endian: Wiktionary
  4. big-endian: Dictionary.com
  5. Big-endian: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. big-endian: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. big-endian: CCI Computer
  3. Big-endian: Unicode Glossary
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. big-endian: Hacking Lexicon
  6. big-endian: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Big-endian: Wordcraft Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. big-endian: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (big-endian)

adjective:  (computing) Storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a lower address than the least significant byte; that is, "big end" first.
adjective:  (networking) Transmitting the most significant byte of a multibyte number before transmitting the least significant byte; that is, "big end" first.

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