Third-person singular present tense of dereference; accesses the values that pointers or references point to in computer programming.
Present tense form of 'dereference,' used in technical documentation and programming tutorials to describe what code performs during execution.
When a programmer uses this word in code, they're asking the computer to 'look inside the box' rather than just acknowledging the box exists—thousands of times per second in modern programs.
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