Token

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Token may refer to:

Economics

• Exonumia, items of currency other than coins and paper money
• Token money, money that is of limited legal tender
• Token coin, a small, flat, round piece of metal or plastic that can sometimes be used instead of money
  • Casino token
  • Knight's token, carried by a medieval knight
• Voucher or gift card, redeemable for items of value

Computing

• Token, an object (in software or in hardware) which represents the right to perform some operation:
  • Tokenization (data security), the process of substituting a sensitive data element
  • Token, an object used in Petri net theory
  • Access token, a system object representing the subject of access control operations
  • 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
  • Token ring, a network technology in which a token circles in a logical ring
  • Invitation token, in an invitation system
• Lexical token, a word or other atomic parse element

Other uses

• Wedding token, wedding paraphernalia also known as an arrhae or wedding coin
• Game piece (board game), or counter, used in some games
• Token (railway signalling), a physical object given to a locomotive driver to authorize him to use a particular stretch of single railway track
• 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, a vocal music group
• Type-token distinction, in logic, linguistics, and computer programming
• Token Racing, a Formula One car racing team

See also

• Token Black, a recurring character on the animated television series South Park
• Tokin (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with Token
• All pages with a title containing Token