noun🔗ShareThe act by which something is dereferenced."The software crashed due to an attempted dereference of a null pointer. "computingtechnologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo 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."Attempting to dereference a null pointer often results in a crash."computingtechnicalinternetsystemelectronicslogicfunctiondeviceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share(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."With the find command, any symbolic links appearing after -follow will be dereferenced."computingtechnicalsysteminternettechnologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
