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Token may refer to:

Currency

• Token coin, a small, flat, round piece of metal or plastic that can sometimes be used instead of money.
  • Book token, a voucher or gift card redeemable for books
  • Casino token
  • Knight's token, carried by a medieval knight
  • Other items that are part of exonumia

Computing

• Token, an object which represents the right to perform some operation:
  • Access token, a system object representing the subject of access control operations
  • Invitation token, in an invitation system
  • Token, an object used in Petri net theory
  • Security token or hardware token, authentication token or cryptographic token, a physical device for computer authentication
  • Session token, a unique identifier of an interaction session
  • Token ring, a network technology
  • Tokenization (data security), the process of substituting a sensitive data element
• Token (parser), a word or other atomic parse element

Other uses

• Game piece (board game), or counter used in a game
• Token (railway signalling), a physical object given to a locomotive driver to authorize him to use a particular stretch of single railway track
• Token Racing, a Formula One car racing team
• Tokenism, the inclusion of a single person (or very few people) of a group so an organization can publicly claim to be inclusive
• The Tokens, vocal music group
• Type-token distinction, an instance of a type in logic, computational linguistics, and information retrieval
• Wedding token, wedding paraphernalia also known as an arrhae or wedding coin

See also

• Token Black, a recurring character on the animated television series South Park
• Tokin

External links

• Token @ Wikipedia