Complete Definition of "most significant byte"

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Noun
most significant byte (frequently the acronym MSB)

#(Computer Science) The byte of a multibyte number with the greatest importance, as in the number 34 the 3 in the tens position is more significant than the 4 in the ones position.

In contrast to the least significant byte

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