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byte order mark

byte order mark noun: a character indicating the endianness of a string of text.

Noun

byte order mark (plural byte order marks)

  1. A character indicating the endianness of a string of text.
    1. (especially) The Unicode character U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE.

Synonyms of byte order mark

Forms of byte order mark

pluralbyte order marks
alternative formbyte-order mark

Origin of byte order mark

From byte order + mark.

Questions about byte order mark

What does byte order mark mean?
Byte order mark means a character indicating the endianness of a string of text.
What part of speech is byte order mark?
Byte order mark is a noun.
What is the plural of byte order mark?
The plural of byte order mark is byte order marks.

Words near byte order mark in the dictionary

  1. byte bucket
  2. byte buckets
  3. byte code
  4. byte codes
  5. byte order
  6. byte order mark
  7. byte order marks
  8. byte pair encoding
  9. byte pair encodings
  10. byte-order mark
  11. byte-pair encoding

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