What is "endian"

a. (context computing English) Of a computer, storing multibyte numbers with the most significant byte at a greater (qualifier: little-endian) or lower (qualifier: big-endian) address.

Endian may refer to:

• Endianness, the order of the bytes, comprising a digital word, in computer memory
• Endian Firewall, a Linux distribution of the South Tyrolean company Endian