Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dereferencing

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English

Syllables: deref-er-enc-ing
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of dereference

noun

The act by which something is dereferenced.

Example Sentences

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

Inflected Forms

dereferencings (plural)

Questions

What does dereferencing mean?: present participle and gerund of dereference

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