1. dereferencing - Noun
2. dereferencing - Verb
dereferencing
present participle of dereference
dereferencing (plural dereferencings)
The act by which something is dereferenced.
Dereferencing a null pointer will always result in a segmentation fault, but wild pointers and dangling pointers point to memory that may or may not exist, and may or may not be readable or writable, and thus can result in transient bugs. Source: Internet