Token

Token may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media
  • Token, a game piece or counter, used in some games
  • The Tokens, a vocal music group
  • Token Black, a recurring character on the animated television series South Park

Computing
  • Token, an object (in software or in hardware) which represents the right to perform some operation:
    • Token, an object used in Petri net theory
    • Access token, a system object representing the subject of access control operations
    • Invitation token, in an invitation system
    • 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 in which a token circles in a logical ring
    • Tokenization (data security), the process of substituting a sensitive data element
  • 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
  • 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, wedding paraphernalia also known as an arrhae or wedding coin
  • Token Black, a recurring character in South Park
gollark: I mostly work with RF, so my stuff uses, generally... NuclearCraft fission/fusion systems, weird closed-cycle power systems using trees and whatnot, solar panels, that sort of thing.
gollark: Addons?
gollark: Because I once blew up an entire base that way with Gregtech.
gollark: You've never blown up a machine from feeding it 128EU/t instead of 32 or something?
gollark: IC2 at least has some rough approximation of voltage, doesn't it?

See also
  • Tokin (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Token
  • All pages with titles containing Token
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