Token
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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