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Dereferencing means taking away the reference and giving you what it was actually referring to.

Dereferencing is used to access or manipulate data contained in memory location pointed to by a pointer. 
*(asterisk) is used with pointer variable when dereferencing the pointer variable, it refers to variable being pointed, so this is called dereferencing of pointers.

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(programming) To 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.

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