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More generally, a pointer is a kind of reference, and it is said that a pointer references a datum stored somewhere in memory ; to obtain that datum is to dereference the pointer.
The feature that separates pointers from other kinds of reference is that a pointer's value is meant to be interpreted as a memory address, which is a rather low-level concept.
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