Noun: MSB
- A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees
- mutual savings bank [US]
- (computing) the bit in a multiple-bit binary number with the largest value; this is usually the bit farthest to the left, or the bit transmitted first in a sequence. For example, in the binary number 1000, the MSB is 1, and in the binary number 0111, the MSB is 0
"In digital signal processing, the MSB often carries crucial information";
- most significant bit
Type of: savings bank
Encyclopedia: MSB