English Explanatory Dictionary

most significant byte

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The byte of a multibyte number with the greatest importance: that is, the byte stored first on a big-endian system or last on a little-endian system.

Word forms

most significant byte most significant bytes

Antonyms

least significant byte
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