From dereference + -able. <span class="searchmatch">dereferenceable</span> (not comparable) (programming) That can be dereferenced. 2003, Jeremy Gibbons, Johan Jeuring, Generic Programming:...
any symbolic links appearing after -follow will be dereferenced. <span class="searchmatch">dereferenceable</span> dereferencer access something to which a pointer or another value points...