little-endian adj. Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given 16- or 32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have
lower significance (the word is stored `little-end-first'). The
PDP-11 and VAX families of computers and Intel microprocessors and
a lot of communications and networking hardware are little-endian.
See big-endian, middle-endian, NUXI problem. The
term is sometimes used to describe the ordering of units other than
bytes; most often, bits within a byte.