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-ENDIAN

Specialty Definition: -ENDIAN

Domain	Definition
Computing	-endian The ordering of bytes in a multi-byte number. The term comes from Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" via the famous paper "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace" by Danny Cohen, USC/ISI IEN 137, 1980-04-01. The Lilliputians, being very small, had correspondingly small political problems. The Big-Endian and Little-Endian parties debated over whether soft-boiled eggs should be opened at the big end or the little end. See big-endian, little-endian, middle-endian, holy wars, NUXI problem, swab. (1998-08-09). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: -ENDIAN

Specialty definitions using "-ENDIAN": big-endian ♦ middle-endian. (references)

Modern Translation: -ENDIAN

Language		Translations for "-ENDIAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		エンジン発動機 (angel, angel baby, angelfish, embassy, emblem, emboss, embroidery, empathy, emperor, emphasis, emphasize, empire, Empire Day, Empire State Building, empress, emptiomania, empty, empty nest, empty nest syndrome, end, end curler, end line, end user, ending, endive, endless, endless tape, endorphin, engine, engine stop, engineering plastics, enhancement, entasis, enter, enterprise, entertainer, entertainment, entitled, entity, entrance, entropy, entry, envelope, hit-and-run, two-base entitlement). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		エンディアン . (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: -ENDIAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-n-n"
	-1 letter: inane, inned.
	-2 letters: aide, dean, deni, dine, idea, nide, nine.
	-3 letters: aid, ain, and, ane, ani, den, die, din, end, inn, nae, nan.
	-4 letters: ad, ae, ai, an, de, ed, en, id, in, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-n-n"
	+1 letter: adenine, annelid, deaning, lindane, nardine.
	+2 letters: adenines, amandine, amending, annelids, anointed, antinode, awninged, crannied, davening, decennia, demonian, dentinal, endbrain, enneadic, financed, incanted, indamine, inlander, insnared, inundate, kneading, ladening, landline, landmine, lindanes, nonideal, pineland, pinnated, rendzina, unnailed.
	+3 letters: adenosine, almandine, anhedonia, anhedonic, annelidan, antinodes, appending, ascending, attending, bedamning, bendaying, cadencing, candlepin, canonised, canonized, celandine, contained, dampening, dandelion, dandering, dangering, darkening, deaconing, deadening, deafening, decanting, decennial, defanging, demanding, demeaning, denominal, deplaning, deranging, desanding, detaining, dominance, enchained, endbrains, endearing, engrained, entrained, expanding, gandering, gardening, grenadine, guanidine, handiness, hardening, hindrance, indamines, ingrained, inlanders, innovated, inspanned, instanced, integrand, intendant, intonated, inundated, inundates, landlines, landmines, maddening, mainlined, mandoline, menadione, mendicant, nicknamed, nominated, ordinance, pandering, pinelands, pinnacled, remanding, rendzinas, saddening, sandiness, unaligned, unchained, underlain, undrained, unhandier, unleading, unpainted, unstained, untainted, untrained, wandering, zinfandel.
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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography

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