Token

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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 coins, 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".

[edit] 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
• Cellular Authentication Token, a software replacement for a security token
• 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.

[edit] Sport

• Token (Racing team), a Formula One team run by Ron Dennis.