dereference
/dɪˈɹɛfɹəns/ · noun
Meaning
- The act by which something is dereferenced.
- To access the value or object located in a memory location stored in a pointer or another value interpreted as such; to access a value being referenced by something else.
- (in operating systems derived from Unix) To operate on the file or directory pointed to by a symbolic link, rather than on the link itself.
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