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Token may refer to:

  • Token (railway Signalling) , a physical object given to a locomotive driver to authorize him to use a particular stretch of single railway track

  • Token Coin s, a piece of metal or other composition used as a substitute for currency

  • Tokenism , the inclusion of a single person (or very few people) of a group so an organization can publicly claim to be inclusive

  • Token Character , a supporting character in a story who has no real relevance to the plot but is included to conform to expected standards, such as featuring ethnic minorities in a cast of predominantly whites

  • Token Black , the only black child in the '' South Park '' television series.

  • The Tokens , a band perhaps best known for their hit " The Lion Sleeps Tonight ".

  • Knight's Token , carried by a medieval knight



COMPUTING


  • Token (Windows NT Architecture) , a system object representing the subject of access control operations

  • Token (parser) , usually a word or an atomic element within a literal string

  • Tokenizing , the operation of splitting a string of characters into a set of tokens in lexical analysis

  • Session Token , a unique identifier which is generated and sent from a server to a software client to identify an interaction session and which the client usually stores as an HTTP cookie

  • Security Token (also known as a hardware token, authentication token or cryptographic token), a physical device that an authorized user of computer services is given to aid in authentication

  • Token Ring , a local area network technology in which a virtual object known as a token is passed between devices on the network, authorizing them to communicate

  • Token (Petri Net) , an object used in Petri net theory

  • Invitation Tokens , sometimes called "codes", sometimes used as a method of curbing website registration for a number of purposes.



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