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title: Deserialization
slug: Glossary/Deserialization
page-type: glossary-definition
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**Deserialization** is the process whereby a lower-level format (e.g., that has been transferred over a network, or stored in a data store) is translated into a readable object or other data structure.

In {{Glossary("JavaScript")}}, for example, you can deserialize a {{Glossary("JSON")}} {{Glossary("string")}} to an object by calling the {{Glossary("function")}} {{jsxref("JSON.parse()")}}.

## See also

- [Serialization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization) on Wikipedia