Token Explained
Token may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Token, a game piece or counter, used in some games
- The Tokens, a vocal music group
- Tolkien Black, a recurring character on the animated television series South Park, formerly known as Token Black
- Token (rapper), a hip hop emcee from Massachusetts
Computing
- Token, an object (in software or in hardware) which represents the right to perform some operation:
- Session token, a unique identifier of an interaction session
- Security token or hardware token, authentication token or cryptographic token, a physical device for computer authentication
- Bearer token, a type of security token in OAuth that gives access to its bearer
- Access token, a system object representing the subject of access control operations
- Tokenization (data security), the process of substituting a sensitive data element
- Invitation token, in an invitation system
- Token Ring, a network technology in which a token circles in a logical ring
- Token, an object used in Petri net theory
- Lexical token, a word or other atomic parse element
Economics
- Token, a voucher or gift card redeemable for items of value
- Token coin, a small, flat, round piece of metal or plastic that can sometimes be used instead of money, e.g.:
- Casino token, also known as a casino chip, check, cheque, or gaming chip
- Knight's token, carried by a medieval knight
- Token money, money that is of limited legal tender
- Tokens, exonumia, items of currency other than coins and paper money
Other uses
- P-20 radar, NATO reporting name "Token"
- Token (cryptocurrency), certain types of cryptocurrency
- 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
- Type-token distinction, in logic, linguistics, and computer programming
- Wedding token, Christian wedding paraphernalia also known as an arrhae or wedding coin
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