Token
Token may refer to:
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Token (railway signalling), a physical object given to a locomotive driver to authorize him to use a particular stretch of single railway track
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Token coins, a piece of metal or other composition used as a substitute for currency
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Tokenism, the inclusion of a single person (or very few people) of a group so an organization can publicly claim to be inclusive
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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
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Token Black, the only black child in the
South Park television series
* A small item used to represent players or other objects in
games, particularly
board games
* One instance of a "
type" in philosophy
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The Tokens, a band perhaps best known for their hit "
The Lion Sleeps Tonight".
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Token (Windows NT architecture), a system object representing the subject of access control operations
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Token (parser), usually a word or an atomic element within a literal string
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Tokenizing, the operation of splitting a string of characters into a set of tokens in lexical analysis
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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
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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
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Cellular Authentication Token, a software replacement for a security token
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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
