title: Token
text: # 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
  * Tolkien Black, a recurring character on the animated television series South Park, formerly known as Token Black
  * Token (rapper), a hip hop emcee from Massachusetts
  
  ## Computing
  
  * Token, an object (in software or in hardware) which represents the right to perform some operation:
     * 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
        * Bearer token, a type of security token in OAuth that gives access to its bearer
     * Access token, a system object representing the subject of access control operations
     * Tokenization (data security), the process of substituting a sensitive data element
     * Invitation token, in an invitation system
     * Token Ring, a network technology in which a token circles in a logical ring
     * Token, an object used in Petri net theory
  * 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
  
  * P-20 radar, NATO reporting name "Token"
  * 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, Christian wedding paraphernalia also known as an arrhae or wedding coin
  