👉 Dereign is a concept in computer science, specifically in software engineering. It refers to the process of manipulating data structures or algorithms that are not intended to be used directly for processing the input data but rather for external use. In other words, it's about using the "dereference" operator (in C/C++) instead of the "reference" operator (in many programming languages). This concept is often seen in situations where a program needs to access or modify data that is not directly