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Noun

1. 1
   The act by which something is dereferenced.

   "Linus Torvalds himself designed the sparse tool to find direct userspace pointer dereferencings in the kernel."

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of dereference form-of, gerund, participle, present

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"Linus Torvalds himself designed the sparse tool to find direct userspace pointer dereferencings in the kernel."

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